> On Jun 1, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Linux users often use the OS-supplied Python, and so getting the > distributions to upgrade, and to backport upgrades to old versions of > their OS and (push those backports as required updates) is the route > to get the bulk of the users there. Experience on pip seems to > indicate this is unlikely to happen, in practice. Mac OS users who use > the system Python are, as I understand it, stuck with a pretty broken > version (I don't know if newer versions of the OS change that). But > distributions like Macports are more common and more up to date. >
Note that on macOS, within the next year macOS users using the system Python are going to be unable to talk to PyPI anyways (unless Apple does something here, which I think they will), but in either case, Apple was pretty good about upgrading to 2.7.9 (I think they had the first OS released that supported 2.7.9?). — Donald Stufft
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