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Python 2.7 as reached his EOL release and will not be maintained after January 1st, 2020 [1] due to PEP 373 [2]. More and more Projects withdraw support of python 2.7 [3] including test packages [4]
I propose to use the full potental for python 3 and to cleanup code from old stuff. This hasn't to be immediately but bot owners should be conducted to Switch so python 3 soon.
What can be the steps to proceesd?
- Abandon support for Python 2.6 (T154771)
- Drop support for Python 3.3 (T184508)
- Drop support for python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3 now (T191192)
- Drop support for Python 2.7.6 and lower in few months (T203471)
- Withdraw Python 2.7.2/2.7.3 from appveyor test gerrit:467720
- Add python 3.7 to test Matrix gerrit:433554
- Add python 3.8 to test matrix gerrit:482532
- New functionalities for python 3 only
- Drop support for python 2.7 in 2020
If someone cannot upgrade to Python 3.0, the older Pywikibot releases are still available either via pypi package or the corresponding tag in our repository but one should be aware that these issues may still lead to problems.
[1] https://pythonclock.org/
[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
[3] https://python3statement.org/
[4] https://pypi.org/project/pydocstyle/#description
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