At last! Python 3.5 has now officially reached its end-of-life. Since
there have been no checkins or PRs since I tagged 3.5.10, 3.5.10 will
stand as the final release in the 3.5 series.
As with a similar announcement I wrote about eighteen months ago, I know
we can all look back fondly on Python 3.5. 3.5 added many new
asynchronous I/O programming features, the "typing" module, and even a
new operator ("@"). Plus many and varied quality-of-life improvements
for the Python programmer, in both the language, the library, the core
implementation, and even the installers. Python 3.5.0 was the best
version of the best language at the time, and since then it's gotten
even better!
My thanks to all the members of the Python 3.5 release team. In
alphabetical order:
Georg Brandl
Julian Palard
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Terry Reedy
My thanks also to the Python infrastructure team.
The end of Python 3.5 support also ends my tenure as a Python Release
Manager. Congratulations, you survived me and my frequent mistakes!
(Special shouts out to Ned and Benjamin for running around behind the
scenes quietly cleaning up my messes--and not even telling me most of
the time.) Rest assured that I leave you in /much/ better hands with
the current crop of RMs: Ned, Łukasz, and Pablo.
One amusing note. During my tenure as a Python release manager, I had
to deal with /three/ different revision control systems. Although we'd
switched CPython itself to Mercurial by the time 3.4 alpha 0 was
released, there were still many supporting repositories still on
Subversion. (I remember having to do Subversion branch merges as part
of my 3.4 release work... what a pain.) And of course these days we're
on Git (-hub). This straddling of three different workflows certainly
complicated the lives of us Release Managers. So, my friends, please...
make up your minds! ;-)
It's been my honor to serve you,
//arry/
p.s. As of today, every supported version of Python supports f-strings.
The only remaining excuse for "we can't use f-strings" is no longer viable!
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