On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:42 PM, hamilton <hamil...@nothere.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2015 1:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Python 3.5 does not support Windows XP. > > > Is there a simple explanation for this ? > > Or is it just is.
We don't see the need to be burdened by supporting versions of Windows that are no longer supported by Microsoft in new versions of Python. Versions of Python whose initial release occurred during the support period of a particular version of Windows will always support that version of Windows, though (for example, Python 3.4 will always support XP, Python 2.7 will always support XP and even Windows 2000). Python 3.3 dropped support for Windows 2000, Python 3.5 drops support for XP and Server 2003, and Windows Vista will be unsupported by Python 3.7. See also PEP 11. -- Zach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
