2009/10/22 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: > What use has such a stepping stone? Why, and (more importantly) when > would anybody currently supporting 2.x give up 2.6 and earlier, and > only support 2.7? And, if they chose to do so, why would they not move > the code base to 3.x right away?
Python 2 support is not only about supporting old versions of Python, but also supporting users of Python2-only modules. If you have a module that runs only on Python 2.7, the people who for some reason can not move to Python 3 yet, can still use it, by running Python 2.7. For that your module doesn't have to run on 2.6 or 2.5. So 2.7 support will for the most part be a case not of supporting Python versions, but Python *users*. Which is a good thing. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
