On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:40:25 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Incidentally, is there a reason you're using Python 2.6? You should be >> able to upgrade at least to 2.7, and Flask ought to work fine on 3.3 >> (the current stable Python). If it's the beginning of your project, and >> you have nothing binding you to Python 2, go with Python 3. Converting a >> small project now will save you the job of converting a big project in >> ten years' time > > Everything you say is correct, but remember that there is a rather large > ecosystem of people writing code to run on servers where the supported > version of Python is 2.6, 2.5, 2.4 and even 2.3. RedHat, for example, > still has at least one version of RHEL still under commercial support > where the system Python is 2.3, at least that was the case a few months > back, it may have reached end-of-life by now. But 2.4 will definitely > still be under support.
Pledging that your app will run on the system Python of RHEL is something that binds you to a particular set of versions of Python. It's not just library support that does that. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
