<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>RHEL 6 and variants (CentOS) ship with Python 2.4. RHEL 6 is in extended support for a few more years.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe I've previously proposed a 2.7 migration on this list. A lot of people came out of the woodwork to object.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck moving forward. The world is better if Python <2.7 can be dropped.</div><div><br>On Dec 11, 2014, at 18:28, Sean Silva <<a href="mailto:chisophugis@gmail.com">chisophugis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">+1<div><br></div><div>I guess the only question is "who is using < 2.6 ?"</div><div><br></div><div>-- Sean Silva</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Rafael Espíndola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Currently lit on windows will not work with python 3 because the<br>
internal shell has code like<br>
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except OSError, e:<br>
<br>
and in python 3 one has to use<br>
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except OSError as e:<br>
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But that only works on python 2.6 and newer.<br>
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So the question is: any objections to dropping support for python 2.5?<br>
Python 2.6 was released 01-Oct-2008, so it should be available<br>
everywhere.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Rafael<br>
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