I've been happy to drop support for a couple of years, but while it kept
working I kept building it :) I can't recall if 2.4 is built with vc6
too - if so, we might as well kill that too.
Cheers,
Mark.
On 26/03/2013 8:33 PM, Vernon D. Cole wrote:
Perhaps it is time...
I found a copy of Python 2.3 to load onto a new computer in order to
test my software, but it was not easy. It is in the small print about
four pages down from the download page on python.org
<http://python.org>. I was one of 432 people who have downloaded the
2.3 installer for pywin32 build 218. Compared with 121,351 downloaded
installers for Python 3.3 and 2.7 combined, 431 is 0.35 percent of our
users. I discounted myself, because the only reason I downloaded the
package was to make sure I have not broken something by using a new
feature. I wonder how many of the others of that 432 are for similar
reasons. Most, I would bet.
Supporting that zero point three percent is costly, in terms of lost
features. Adodbapi is not a large module, but there are half a dozen
places in it which deal specifically with Python 2.3 -- such as "import
win32com.decimal.decimal_23 as decimal" for example. There are two
places which work around not having generator expressions, and a big
question in the comments about handling the difference between long and
int integers, and whether that is done correctly. There is also a
confusing code block for float conversion with commas versus dots. All
of that goes away if I simply change the "all versions of CPython later
than,,," line.
The important differences in Python 2.4
* decimal.Decimal
* generator expressions
* built in set objects
* Decorators
* unified integers
* locale-independent float/string conversion
* reverse iteration
I am starting an informal poll...
Is it really worthwhile to keep maintaining support for Python 2.3,
which was released in 2005 and has not been updated since 2008?
--
Vernon
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