2.5 is still good. I am suggesting (begging) that we drop 2.4 . On Apr 28, 2013 11:31 PM, "Andreas Holtz" <a.ho...@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.hammond@gmail.* >> *com <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<python-win32@python.org> >> > >> >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> -------------------- >> >> python-win32 mailing list >> python-win32@python.org >> <mailto:python-win32@python.**org<python-win32@python.org> >> > >> >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<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<python-win32@python.org> >> > >> >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> python-win32 mailing list >> python-win32@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32> >
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