On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Joachim Durchholz <j...@durchholz.org> wrote: > Am 24.05.2012 21:26, schrieb Aaron Meurer: > >> Note that the main reason to keep Python 2.5 support would be for >> people who don't have enough control over their system to install or >> compile Python 2.6 or 2.7. > > > Now I'm curious: What difference between 2.4 and 2.5 is making 2.4 > support-unworthy and 2.5 support-worthy?
Quite a bit, see the relevant issue[1] and the mailing list thread it references[2] for a list of reasons to switch. It was also quite helpful with Python 3 support (I remember there were issues, but I can't think of any in particular right now). In comparison, is there such a number of new feature we could use from 2.6? The with statement is available in 2.5, as Aaron noted; I'm not sure about the wrapper support you mention, though. What 2.6 does provide, though, is a ton of methods which emulate py3k functionality, so it would be easier to support Python 2 and 3 with a unified code-base (as opposed to running 2to3). On the other hand, I'm not sure a) how feasible this actually is, and b) if we actually want this? As we already have a Python 3 solution with the use of 2to3, pouring effort in the other direction could be considered kind of a waste. In short, unless there are compelling reasons for dropping 2.5 support - I'm against it. [1] http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2135 [2] http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/b0103e9ce1301440/ed74f8f8106ac490?pli=1 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > -- Vladimir Perić -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
