Yes, I think that should be clarified as well. Thanks.
Anthony On Monday, August 13, 2012 10:38:40 AM UTC-4, Mike Girard wrote: > > The book also provides this command for running web2py from source. > > python2.5 web2py.py > > it was this that made me think I had to use 2.5 along with presumably > obsolete posts in this group about issues that came up with new Python > versions. I suppose if I hadn't been skimming, I would have felt more > confident that 2.6 was supported. > > Anyway, I'm good to go now. Thanks for the help. > > > > > > On Monday, August 13, 2012 9:36:35 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >> >> The book says: >> >> web2py runs with CPython (the C implementation) and Jython (the Java >> implementation), on Python versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7, although >> "officially" it only supports 2.5 so that we can guarantee backward >> compatibility for applications. >> >> I guess that sounds a bit misleading, as 2.6 and 2.7 are also officially >> supported. It's just that the framework is written to target 2.5, so the >> framework code doesn't include any language features that were new in 2.6 >> or 2.7 (of course, your app code can include such features if you're >> running 2.6 or 2.7). I think we may need to remove 2.4 from that list as >> well. >> >> Anthony >> >> >> On Monday, August 13, 2012 9:27:36 AM UTC-4, Mike Girard wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the confirmation. Perhaps the official documentation should >>> be updated. >>> >>> On Monday, August 13, 2012 9:17:51 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >>>> >>>> Are you sure? I searched on this list and seemed that there had been >>>>> some problems. >>>> >>>> >>>> Shouldn't be any problems. 2.5 is the *oldest* version of Python with >>>> which web2py will work (used to be 2.4), but it works fine with 2.6 and >>>> 2.7. >>>> >>>> Anthony >>>> >>> --
