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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jul 12 09:45:11 CEST 2013

On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:28:49 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:49:54 +1200, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote: > I guess it has to be dropped at some stage, but with Windows XP it's a case > of "XP is dead. Long live XP!" There are still an awful lot of XP boxes out > there, and I'd kind hate to see support dropped completely. We still use it > here at home. > > Wikipedia/Net Applications says that Windows XP has still has a full 37% of > market share! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usageshareofoperatingsystems > ) > > 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,

It's not practical, but we already do it. See check_GetFinalPathNameByHandle in Modules/posixmodule.c.

Regards

Antoine.

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