On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Root <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Charles R Harris > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The previous proposal to drop python 2.4 support garnered no opposition. >> How about dropping support for python 2.5 also? >> >> Chuck >> > > matplotlib 1.2 supports py2.5. I haven't seen any plan to move off of that > for 1.3. Is there a compelling reason for dropping 2.5?
A rationale for the record: I don't think people who don't care about 2.4 care about 2.5, and 2.6 is a significant improvement compared to 2.5: - context manager - python 3-compatible exception syntax (writing code that works with 2 and 3 without any change is significantly easier if your baseline in 2.6 instead of 2.4/2.5) - json, ast, multiprocessing are available and potentially quite useful for NumPy itself. cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
