[Biopython] Preparing to drop Python 3.3 support

[Mic]

Thank you Peter for the update about PYPY.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear Biopythoneers,
> >
> > Do any of you still use Python 3.3?
> >
> > Biopython currently supports and is regularly tested on Python 3.3, 3.4,
> > 3.5 (the current latest release) and also Python 2.6 and 2.7 as well.
> >
> > (I'm talking about the main C version of Python from python.org here,
> > we also test under PyPy and Jython).
> >
> > As of Biopython 1.66, we have deprecated support for Python 2.6.
> > Based on http://biopython.org/wiki/Deprecation_policy we'll still
> > support Python 2.6 for Biopython 1.67 and in principle any other
> > releases we make up to October 2016.
> >
> > For the next release, Biopython 1.67, I would like to deprecate support
> > for Python 3.3. This has various codec fixes which will let us remove
> > some workarounds in our code, and comes with pip which will make
> > installation simpler in the long run (Python 2.7.9 onwards also has
> > the ensurepip module).
> >
> > Phasing out support for Python 2.6 and 3.3 is in line with other
> Scientific
> > Python packages like matplotlib, Bokeh, pandas, and (or more direct
> > relevance), numpy:
> >
> >
> https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-December/074331.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
>
> I've made this change on the repository now,
>
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/d183e6ed5e23dd6399759c0f73011e84ebe03954
>
> Once again, comments from anyone still using Python 3.3 would be
> welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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