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@hugovk hugovk commented Sep 11, 2019

Python 3.4 is EOL and no longer receiving security updates (or any updates) from the core Python team.

Version Release date Supported until
2.7 2010-07-03 2020-01-01
3.4 2014-03-16 2019-03-16

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Version_history

They're also little used. Here's the pip installs for pytest-django from PyPI for August 2019:

category percent downloads
3.6 39.15% 250,673
3.7 35.13% 224,890
2.7 16.93% 108,415
3.5 7.24% 46,374
3.4 0.86% 5,495
null 0.52% 3,357
3.8 0.15% 973
2.6 0.01% 64
Total 640,241

Date range: 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31

Source: pip install -U pypistats && pypistats python_minor pytest-django --last-month


What are the plans for dropping Python 2.7? Here's the status of pytest and Django:

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Thanks!

It does not allow us to remove code (but maybe the coverage report shows something), so I'd rather postpone this - since it would disallow install on py34 for no reason.

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blueyed commented Jan 7, 2020

Rebased (for up-to-date coverage report).
Dropping Django < 1.11 soon (#796), so this goes kind of in the same direction.

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