Adding Python 3.9 and dropping Python 2.7 support are two different things, but Python 3.9 somehow "enforces" to do both at the same time.
The proposal is to give one year to project maintainers to drop Python 2.7 support, since Python 2.7 end of support just happened a few weeks ago (2020-01-01). Big projects have more resources to schedule dropping Python 2 support, coordinated with other projects: https://python3statement.org/ But for smaller projects with less resources, it's more complicated. Many very popular Python modules are maintained by a single person with limited resources. Even if we propose pull requests, it still takes time to review it, prepare a new release, etc. Victor Le ven. 24 janv. 2020 à 09:42, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 7:40 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote: > > > > The change is that Python 2.7 is no longer supported (since 2020-01-01). > > > > Which means that it's now okay to remove things, correct? Starting > with 3.9, it's no longer necessary to maintain compatibility with 2.7? > > ChrisA -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LJTWEBG5NCLKKC4TY4I3JA2CYCMLUXO3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
