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  Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-12-21 11:48 -0500

#17674 — Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +0000, Chris Withers
<chris@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 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/

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