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Michael A. Smith commented on AVRO-3004:
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Yes, this ticket should be good to execute. It means removing 3.5 from build
and setup, including trove classifiers. It also means updating any avro
documentation on the wiki and other places.
> Drop Python 3.5 Support
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>
> Key: AVRO-3004
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3004
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: python
> Reporter: Michael A. Smith
> Priority: Major
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> Python 3.5 has reached its end of life, according to [PEP
> 478|https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0478/#id4].
> Furthermore, pip, the standard Python package installer, [intends to drop
> support for Python 3.5|https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/news/#b1-2020-10-31] in
> its January release of pip 21.0.
> Python 3.6 adds [new features|https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html]
> that we will be able to take better advantage of, such as fstrings, variable
> annotations, and async.
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