[Biopython-dev] Phasing out support for Python 2.4?

[Peter]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
> Hey Peter;
> Sounds great to me. Looking forward to being able to use conditional
> expressions, collections.defaultdict, functools, and the with
> statement. 2.5 had a lot of great stuff.
>
> Brad

I guess there are quite a few good things in Python 2.5+,
although I think the jump from Python 2.3 to 2.4 was more
important (generators and decorators). You'll have to restrain
yourself from using the new toys in Biopython a little longer
though Brad ;)

Since this seems to have raised no immediate objections,
I've sent a message to the main and announcement lists:

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2010-January/006111.html
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-announce/2010-January/000064.html

Assuming there are no objections, we can add a conditional
deprecation warning to setup.py and do a news blog post
(like we did for dropping Python 2.3 early last year):
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2009/05/dropping-python23-support/

Peter