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Python 2 has some value Python doesn't have. E.g. there are Python 2 builds for really old platforms. There even are some considerably exotic platforms which ar

Python 2 has some value Python doesn't have. E.g. there are Python 2 builds for really old platforms. There even are some considerably exotic platforms which are not so old and not deprecated but still don't have Python 3.

filmor 6y ago
Any example of this? Python's C code base has very few requirements on the platform, and I doubt that got worse with the 2->3 transition.
- dataflow 6y ago
  Not a direct response to your question, but given even Windows XP isn't supported by Python 3 as of 2015 (just 1 year after XP extended support ended), it does seem like Python does have a fairly nontrivial set of requirements for the underlying platform.
- eesmith 6y ago
  https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b71c7dc9ddd6997be49ed6aaabf99a067e2c0388 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b71c7dc9ddd6997be49... commit b71c7dc9ddd6997be49ed6aaabf99a067e2c0388 Author: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Date: Fri Oct 10 11:55:41 2014 +0200 Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC). Today is a sad day. Good bye MS-DOS, good bye my friend :'-(
  - corradoverh 6y ago
    :(