From 13f927e253fe84ef8b6af755c0547629f492bebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Todd Leonhardt Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 21:09:36 -0400 Subject: Replace Python 2.7 EOL message in readme with an EOL message for Python 3.5 --- README.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 32b8e7fa..ca03cc47 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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 ------------ -- cgit v1.2.1