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

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Thu May 30 13:36:36 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Ivan Gregoretti <ivangreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bow,
>
> I think that we should drop support for Python 2.x once it is left out
> in favour of Python 3.
>
> I am not aware of any major linux distrubution that uses Python 3 as
> default. By major linux distribution I mean Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS,
> Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
>
> Out of all the five distributions listed above, most administrators
> use CentOS. Perhaps we should schedule Python v2.x support to be
> dropped when CentOS switches to Python 3. That is likely to happen a
> long time from now.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ivan

I agree that dropping Python 2 support is still a long way away :)

I was particularly hoping to find out if many people are using
Python 3.2 (or worse, Python 3.1) or if we can assume Python 3.3
or later.

Thanks,

Peter



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