Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:using': 0.04; 'library,': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'subject:Anyone': 0.07; 'python': 0.08; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; '>do': 0.16; 'bieber': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'subject:still': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; '2.2': 0.18; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.20; 'extension': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; 'dec': 0.22; 'stuff': 0.22; 'wrote': 0.22; 'received:166': 0.23; 'sfxlen:0': 0.23; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'compiled': 0.25; 'code': 0.25; 'windows': 0.26; "i'm": 0.26; 'all,': 0.28; 'lee': 0.28; 'script': 0.28; '2.3': 0.29; 'fairly': 0.30; 'confident': 0.30; 'chris': 0.30; 'subject:?': 0.31; 'source': 0.31; "didn't": 0.31; "isn't": 0.33; "won't": 0.33; 'actually': 0.33; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'someone': 0.34; 'conflicts': 0.34; 'jump': 0.34; 'modules': 0.35; 'uses': 0.36; 'charset:us- ascii': 0.37; 'but': 0.37; 'run': 0.37; 'problems': 0.37; 'could': 0.37; 'using': 0.38; 'received:org': 0.38; "couldn't": 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; '2011': 0.61; 'validate': 0.67; 'works,': 0.68; 'dennis': 0.73; 'commercial': 0.73; 'investigated': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5? Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:48:05 -0500 References: <4EF187A2.6070909@simplistix.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mobile-166-147-103-035.mycingular.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES Cc: testing-in-python@lists.idyll.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1324486106 news.xs4all.nl 6932 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52522 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:17674 On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +0000, Chris Withers 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 was recently laid-off from a program that is still using Python 2.3 on Windows NT! Actually -- one system is having conflicts because someone wrote a script in Python 2.2 and they want to add the stuff I wrote (years ago) in 2.3 to that system. My 2.3 code used modules that didn't exist in 2.2, and the author of the 2.2 code isn't around to validate it under 2.3 (worse -- it apparently uses a compiled extension library, and when I investigated I couldn't find the SOURCE code for that library!). I'm fairly confident that they could jump to 2.5 or 2.6 and run my old 2.3 code with no problems -- but conservatism strikes ("It works, we won't change anything"). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/