[Biopython-dev] Python 2.3 support

[Peter]

> ... Python allows to install "alternative" versions without
> conflicting with your default system version. This way I have Python
> 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3 all installed in the same machine. Using
> alt-install or just compiling a Python version without doing a system
> install. I even have more than one 2.5 version and each with a
> different Biopython installation (using virtual_env) for testing
> purposes. So I don't think there is a valid reason to keep supporting
> such an old version.

OK, OK, no one loves Python 2.3 anymore, and you'll all be glad to see
the back of it ;)

Shall we say that at the end of April, unless anyone has come forward
with a strong need to continue using Biopython on Python 2.3 (or we
are forced to do another release to fix something), we'll start work
on removing Python 2.3 specific code in May?

A lot (hopefully most) of the Python 2.3 bits have a comment about
this in the source code, so a quick grep should pull out most of them.
 If any of you remember any other specific things we need to change
add a note to Bug 2817 please.
http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817

Thanks

Peter