<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div id="yiv9821740715"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444187241437_11981"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444187241437_11980" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div dir="ltr">Python 2.7. Some day I will switch to Python 3 but so far I have been postponing it as there is no urgent need to switch.</div><div dir="ltr">-Michiel<br></div><div id="yiv9821740715yui_3_16_0_1_1444187241437_10515"><span></span></div> <br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444187241437_11982" class="yiv9821740715qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9821740715yqt1793133639" id="yiv9821740715yqt81279"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv9821740715yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 7:55 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv9821740715y_msg_container">On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Vincent Davis <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:vincent@vincentdavis.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:vincent@vincentdavis.net">vincent@vincentdavis.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Peter Cock <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com">p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com</a>><br clear="none">> wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I expect plenty of Biopython users will still want to use Python 2.7<br clear="none">>> for some time yet. Some time later on, a maintenance fork of<br clear="none">>> Biopython just for Python 2.7 might make sense if there is interest<br clear="none">>> in continuing that even after we drop Python 2.7 for new features.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> README Proposal<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> We currently recommend using Python 3.5 from http://www.python.org.<br clear="none">> Python 2.7 support continues in the same code base as 3.5. In the<br clear="none">> future (2016) development for Python 2.7 may be forked from the<br clear="none">> main Biopython development branch and receive primarily bug fix<br clear="none">> support until 2020 inline with Python 2.7 support.<br clear="none">> Python 2.6 support will be declared obsolete in the next release<br clear="none">> (1.66) of Biopython and deprecated in (1.67).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'm not comfortable promising anything as far ahead as 2020 -<br clear="none">even forecasting a few years ahead will be hard for many of us.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But we might as well declare Python 2.6 deprecated in the<br clear="none">imminent Biopython 1.66 release:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/ab5915977b091275ff90de98d8d11d17488ec225">https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/ab5915977b091275ff90de98d8d11d17488ec225</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">That commit also replaces the old recommendation of Python 2.6<br clear="none">with suggesting Python 3.5, but I do not consider the current<br clear="none">wording final.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Out of interest, for those of you on the biopython-dev list, what<br clear="none">is your current default or main Python version/implementation?<br clear="none">I'm wondering what the split is amongst our main contributors.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[Our cluster is running CentOS release 6.7 (Final) which still<br clear="none">has Python 2.6.6 as its default, but I tend to use my own<br clear="none">copies of Python installed from source under $HOME]<div class="yiv9821740715yqt5646102171" id="yiv9821740715yqtfd47746"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Peter<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Biopython-dev mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Biopython-dev@mailman.open-bio.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Biopython-dev@mailman.open-bio.org">Biopython-dev@mailman.open-bio.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biopython-dev">http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biopython-dev</a><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>