End Of Life for Python 2.7 - Pyment will run uder Python 3.6+

[dadadel]

Hi there,

As Python 2.7 has reached end of life last year, I plan to stop supporting running Pyment using it in next release v0.4.0 in few days. And furthermore, I will use f-strings that were introduced in Python 3.6, so Pyment will need Python at least Python 3.6 to run.

But I'd like to know if some people would consider important supporting it?

[felixvd]

My system's default install is still Python 2.7, so it was more convenient for me to change the (literally) 3 places in the codebase that require Python 3. I would keep the Python 2.7 compliance unless there is a feature that requires it.

[RubenKelevra]

Nobody cares for systems which can't feature python 3, and python 2 has no support anymore, nobody should write (new) python 2 code - so can be expected that development systems have python 3 anyway.

[felixvd]

This is a nice ideal, but it isn’t the reality for industry systems that need to work with legacy codebases. One can ridicule old systems for their age, but it does not change the fact that they exist, and there are valid reasons for not upgrading (yet).

I think it is not a problem to stop supporting Python 2.7 as the target of Pyment is source code that could be updated in a different context than the one where it is used.

[RubenKelevra]

As I said, nobody cares.

Pyment is no longer able to run under Python 2, as it should.