Suggestion: drop support for Python 3.3
simonw opened this issue · comments
The tests failed on Python 3.3 for #217 with this error:
ERROR: You need Python 2.7 or 3.4+ to install the typing package.
I'm not sure what depends on typing but since Python 3.3 reached end-of-life on 2017-09-29 (according to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0398/#lifespan) I think it's safe to drop support entirely.
You could even drop support for python<=3.5 as those are also EOL.
New users/developers should have current python versions installed (or should be encouraged to do so, e. g. even with MiniConda as a last resort), so only supporting python>=3.6 might be better and allows for newer features to be used and included.
And those that absolutely require old (unsupported) python versions can use existing/old versions of the library. The risk of security vulnarabilities because of this library are likely smaller than using an ancient python version. Probably.
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Consolidating python version deprecations to tracking issue #268