On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, at 21:27, Yuxuan Wang wrote:
> According to https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/, support for
> Python 2 was stopped from 2020-01-01, which is already more than two years
> ago from now. Is there any reason that thrift should continue to support
> Python 2 in the newer versions?
>
> If there's no objections I would like to remove python 2 from CI
> configuration and docs (for example, LANGUAGES.md).
>
> If JIRA is a better place to discuss this than the maillist I can move the
> discussion there as well.
>
> (This came up as we found out that a fix we did for Python 3 failed the
> Python 2 tests. That in itself is not a very big deal that we can make the
> tests to work for both 2 and 3, but continuing support something that's
> already dropped by upstream for 2 years doesn't really make much sense to
> me.)

+1 for dropping it. The wire formats have been stable for a very long time and 
anyone who needs Python 2 support can stick to 0.15 without worrying about 
compatibility.

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