I use 2.6 and have never used 2.4 since I started using python 2 years ago. Breaking sympy compatibility with python 2.4 is ok by me. It seems like the users of sympy are probably the type who can update more frequently than once every 3 years, so it doesn't seem like too much of an issue.
On Jun 26, 6:47 pm, "Aaron S. Meurer" <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am +1 for removing support for Python 2.4, if no one uses it. > Python 2.5 added quite a few language changes aside from just any() > and all() that could be useful [0], like the ternary operator and > better try syntax. > > By the way, the latest version of Mac OS X (10.5, Leopard) comes with > at least Python 2.5, so you are good there [1]. I believe that the > previous version (10.4, Tiger) came with Python 2.4 or less, but 10.5 > was released long enough ago that I think it is ok to break > compatibility there (10.6 is scheduled to ship in September!). > > At any rate, Python 2.5 was released in 2006 [2], almost three years > ago, so any OS that doesn't support it yet should expect to break > compatibility with python applications and packages by now. > > [0] -http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html > [1] -http://www.apple.com/opensource/ > [2] -http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0356/ > > Aaron Meurer > On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I just wanted to make a quick survey how many sympy users still use > > python2.4? > > > Now even the stable version of Debian uses python2.5. Is there still a > > major linux distribution that uses python2.4? > > > The real problem with python2.4 is that it doesn't support relative > > imports and as such it's a realy pain to include libraries like > > mpmath. Fredrik mentioned here > > >http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=138#c30 > > > that he would like to reintroduce hierarchy of modules in mpmath, > > which is really tedious to make it work inside sympy with python2.4. > > > With sympy itself, it's not a big problem to support python2.4, one > > just needs to take care of things like "any()", "SKIP in doctest" > > etc., so my plan is to support python2.4 at least one more year if > > possible. > > > What do you think? > > > Ondrej > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
