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| author | Kevin Van Brunt <kmvanbrunt@gmail.com> | 2020-06-05 11:28:03 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-06-05 11:28:03 -0400 |
| commit | 8e1c779f63d0bfc5c33e190e5825a07c05d0be7d (patch) | |
| tree | 1a30337d39941bfb4e20288e460ccd1ac3c3185d | |
| parent | f626f8674c3bdf40c3c96f7009f01cf2d5315a7a (diff) | |
| parent | 13f927e253fe84ef8b6af755c0547629f492bebb (diff) | |
| download | cmd2-git-8e1c779f63d0bfc5c33e190e5825a07c05d0be7d.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #942 from python-cmd2/eol_35
Replace Python 2.7 EOL message in readme with EOL message for Python 3.5
| -rwxr-xr-x | README.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ Main Features - Alerts that seamlessly print while user enters text at prompt - Colored and stylized output using `ansi.style()` -Python 2.7 support is EOL -------------------------- -The last version of cmd2 to support Python 2.7 is [0.8.9](https://pypi.org/project/cmd2/0.8.9/), released on August 21, 2018. +Python 3.5 support ending soon +------------------------------ +`cmd2` will end support for Python 3.5 on August 31, 2020. Python 3.5 was [released](https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html) +on Sept. 13, 2015 and its [end-of-life](https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches) is planned for September 2020. -Supporting Python 2 was an increasing burden on our limited resources. Switching to support only Python 3 is allowing -us to clean up the codebase, remove some cruft, and focus on developing new features. +New versions of `cmd2` will stop supporting Python 3.5 in a few months. We are very much looking forward to being able to use +[features added in Python 3.6](https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html) such as [f-strings](https://realpython.com/python-f-strings/). Installation ------------ |