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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:28:46 -0600
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On 12/21/11 07:07, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article<4ef1b9fa$0$29973$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>   Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>  wrote:
>
>> Centos and Red Hat production systems still use Python 2.4, so yes,
>> absolutely, 2.5 and 2.4 still need to be supported.
>
> Is Python 2.4 destined to be the next IE-6?

No...unlike IE6, 2.4 backwards compatibility has a foreseeable 
death when RHEL+2.6 eventually fall out of support ;-)

-tkc