The Nikola developers decided to deprecate Python 2.7 support. Starting with v7.7.2, Nikola will display a warning if Python 2.7 is used (but it will still be fully supported). In early 2016, Nikola v8.0.0 will come out, and that release will not support Python 2.7 officially.
The decision was made on the basis of a user survey, with 138 participants. The vast majority of them claimed that they either use Python 3 already, or can switch really easily. The main reason for the switch was the fact that supporting both requires a lot of extra effort, especially because Python 2.7’s Unicode support is abysmal. Full results: https://getnikola.com/blog/env-survey-results-and-the-future-of-python-27.html What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/ -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
