[Python-Dev] Python 3.4 and Windows XP: just 45 days until EOL (original) (raw)

Ben Hoyt benhoyt at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 04:59:40 CEST 2013

Ah, yeah, that makes sense -- thanks for the further explanation. True about older versions of Python "not going away".

What about just have these attributes/functions on OSes that support it,

> for example os.kill on Python 2.6 vs 2.7?

I'm afraid it's not that simple. The issue (as I understand it from Crys) is that we compile using setting that prevent the advanced features being used, and that's really the only way to do it. That is, you can only get the advanced features by using certain settings, and if you use those, the compiled code won't run on XP. So it is not practical to decide only at runtime to support the advanced feature, meaning there would have to be a differently compiled version of Python specifically for Windows XP (and doubtless new XP-specific ifdefs as well), and I doubt the core team is going to go there. The older versions of Python won't be going away. Those can still be used on XP. Of course, they won't get bug fixes...just like XP itself. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130712/01e3765c/attachment.html>

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