On 22 Dec 2011, at 01:25, Mark Hammond wrote: > FWIW, the most recent version of pywin32 has the following download counts > (rounded to the nearest thousand) > > Version 32bit 64bit > ------------------------- > 3.2 - 75,000 9,000 > 3.1 - 4,000 1,000 > 2.7 - 126,000 16,000 > 2.6 - 46,000 6,000 > 2.5 - 21,000 n/a > 2.4 - 3,000 n/a > 2.3 - 1,000 n/a > > So ISTM that 2.5 isn't hugely popular these days, but also isn't > insignificant. It probably means I could "safely" drop 2.3 and 2.4 support > though... >
These figures can't possibly be true. No-one is using Python 3 yet. ;-) FWIW I heard a few days ago about a UK government department, HMGCC (Her Majesty's Government Communication Centre - based in Milton Keynes), who use Python for research projects. They switched to using Python 3 a while ago. All the best, Michael Foord > Mark > > On 21/12/2011 6:16 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >> What's the python-dev view on this? >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Anyone still using Python 2.5? >> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +0000 >> From: Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> >> To: Python List <python-l...@python.org>, >> "testing-in-pyt...@lists.idyll.org" <testing-in-pyt...@lists.idyll.org>, >> simplis...@googlegroups.com >> >> Hi All, >> >> What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? >> >> Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is >> everyone on 2.6+ nowadays? >> >> I'm finally getting some continuous integration set up for my packages >> and it's highlighting some 2.5 compatibility issues. I'm wondering >> whether to fix those (lots of ugly "from __future__ import >> with_statement" everywhere) or just to drop Python 2.5 support. >> >> What do people feel? >> >> cheers, >> >> Chris >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ 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