Thank you, Larry and the whole release team, for putting so much
work into this !
On 01.10.2020 19:49, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
> 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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