[Biopython-dev] What would we gain by dropping python 2.3?

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Fri Oct 17 14:15:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> I was wondering what benefits we would see by dropping support for
> Python 2.3 after the next release (or next couple of releases?).
> ...
> See http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.4.html

One other pretty trivial thing is the string object gained the rsplit
method in python 2.4 (while partition and rpartition are in Python
2.5+).  I've updated the Seq object's new rsplit method accordingly.

Peter



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