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[TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

Brett Cannon brett at yvrsfo.ca
Wed Dec 21 17:08:31 EST 2011 
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 05:57, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays?
> >
> > Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is
> everyone
> > on 2.6+ nowadays?
> >
> > I'm finally getting some continuous integration set up for my packages
> and
> > it's highlighting some 2.5 compatibility issues. I'm wondering whether to
> > fix those (lots of ugly "from __future__ import with_statement"
> everywhere)
> > or just to drop Python 2.5 support.
> >
> > What do people feel?
>
> Google app engine is still Python 2.5, as is Jython.


But App Engine also supports Python 2.7:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/ (currently
experimental, but then again App Engine itself was in preview mode until
just this past month).
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