My own opinion, after reading the link in the original message in this thread, is to drop Python 2.6 support.
Perhaps Python Weekly and LWN will report on this to increase visibility. As a follow-up, I'd like to point out http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists Dale Smith, Ph.D. Data Scientist d. 404.495.7220 x 4008 f. 404.795.7221 Nexidia Corporate | 3565 Piedmont Road, Building Two, Suite 400 | Atlanta, GA 30305 -----Original Message----- From: tom [mailto:tom.augspurge...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 8:38 AM To: scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Dropping Python 2.6 compatibility For what it’s worth, pandas is dropping 3.3 in our next release (0.18 maybe end of this month). We’re possibly dropping 2.6 as well, but it might get one more release. -Tom > On Jan 4, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> > wrote: > > Happy new year everybody, > > As a new year resolution, I suggest that we drop Python 2.6 > compatibility. > > For an argumentation in this favor, see > http://www.snarky.ca/stop-using-python-2-6 (I don't buy everything > there, but the core idea is there). > > For us, this will mean more usage of context managers, which is good. > > The down side is that many clusters run RedHat variant that are still > under 2.6 (Duh!). The question is: are people using the stock Python > on the clusters, or something else. > > Opinions please? > > Gaël > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
