[Biopython] Fwd: Versions of Python 3 to support in Biopython?

[Richard Llewellyn]

Oops meant for the list.

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From: Richard Llewellyn <llewelr at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Biopython] Versions of Python 3 to support in Biopython?
To: Eric Talevich <eric.talevich at gmail.com>


Moved entirely to Python 3.3 (well, only scikits-learn still might require
2.7), so not supporting earlier versions of Py 3 fine by me.  Thanks so
much.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Eric Talevich <eric.talevich at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Thank you for all the comments so far, don't stop yet :)
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Wibowo Arindrarto
> > <w.arindrarto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm leaning towards insisting on Python >=3.3 support (I'm running
> > > 3.3.2). I suppose that even if Python3.3 is not available on a machine
> > > or through the default package manager, it's always installable on its
> > > own. If that's not the case, I imagine Python2.x is most likely
> > > present in these machines (so Biopython can still be used).
> >
> > True.
> >
> > So far everyone who has replied (including some off list) have said
> > they are using Python 3.3 which is encouraging. Thank you for
> > the comments so far.
> >
> > It looks like we can forget about Python 3.1, and just need to
> > decide if it is worth including Python 3.2.5 in the short term.
> >
>
> I don't always use Python 3.x, but when I do, I use the latest release (3.3
> now). I wonder which one PyPy will target -- I assume they'll try to
> support the most recent syntax.
>
> For anything that needs to be run on machines I don't control, I still
> target 2.7, though I hope to switch to 3 this year.
>
> -Eric
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