I'm bound to Python 2.5. I make heavy usage of 4Suite which is not supported for Python 2.6+ so I can not upgrade :( Or does anyone know a good XML lib that support xpath?
Regards Andreas schrieb Michael Manfre am 26.03.2013 14:08:
Anyone running a no longer supported version of Python on Windows has already made the conscious decision that upgrading their code to newer versions is not worth the cost. No point in shifting that cost to pywin32 maintenance. +1 on dropping all code from any version of Python that no longer receives security updates. Regards, Michael Manfre On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Kris Hardy <k...@rhs.com <mailto:k...@rhs.com>> wrote: +1 Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com <mailto:skippy.hamm...@gmail.com>> wrote: I've been happy to drop support for a couple of years, but while it kept working I kept building it :) I can't recall if 2.4 is built with vc6 too - if so, we might as well kill that too. Cheers, Mark. On 26/03/2013 8:33 PM, Vernon D. Cole wrote: Perhaps it is time... I found a copy of Python 2.3 to load onto a new computer in order to test my software, but it was not easy. It is in the small print about four pages down from the download page on python.org <http://python.org> <http://python.org>. I was one of 432 people who have downloaded the 2.3 installer for pywin32 build 218. Compared with 121,351 downloaded installers fo r Python 3.3 and 2.7 combined, 431 is 0.35 percent of our users. I discounted myself, because the only reason I downloaded the package was to make sure I have not broken something by using a new feature. I wonder how many of the others of that 432 are for similar reasons. Most, I would bet. Supporting that zero point three percent is costly, in terms of lost features. Adodbapi is not a large module, but there are half a dozen places in it which deal specifically with Python 2.3 -- such as "import win32com.decimal.decimal_23 as decimal" for example. There are two places which work around not having generator expressions, and a big question in the comments about handling the difference between long and int integers, and whether that is done correctly. There is also a confusing code block for float conversion with commas versus dots. All of that goes away if I simply change the "all versions of CPython lat er than,,," line. The important differences in Python 2.4 * decimal.Decimal * generator expressions * built in set objects * Decorators * unified integers * locale-independent float/string conversion * reverse iteration I am starting an informal poll... Is it really worthwhile to keep maintaining support for Python 2.3, which was released in 2005 and has not been updated since 2008? -- Vernon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org <mailto:python-win32@python.org> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org <mailto:python-win32@python.org> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org <mailto:python-win32@python.org> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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