Micah Elliott wrote:
> On Nov 17, Duncan Booth wrote:
>
>>Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>>What should I do when I can't rely on functions that
>>>don't exist in older versions of Python?
>
>
>> sys.exit('Archaic Python not supported, please upgrade')
>
>
> +1 QOTW.
>
> I recently gave up on trying to support (backport to) pre-2.2 in my
> projects. It's been ~3 years since 2.2 released and that seem like a
> pretty reasonable support window. I wound up with HACK and
> PORTABILITY comments all over the place and too much boilerplate. Now
> I go with a startup check on sys.hexversion, and exit with similar
> wording.
>
We could all take an example from Fredrik Lundh, who still regularly
releases products that run on everything back to Python 1.5.2. Kudos to
the effbot!
regards
Steve
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