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KevinH · 06-14-2016, 02:15 PM

Yes I think it is time we retire python 2.7 support. Almost all of the plugins we have will run on both, but our internal python 3.4 (or later) (and linked version on Linux) comes with lxml, html5lib, cssutils, cssselect, Pillow, tk, six, regex and chardet all guaranteed to be there and available for the user.

Supporting Python 2.7 code does not seem to add any real value over and above what python 3.4 provides and removing it would certainly simplify things. Older Sigil users can still use an external Python 3 interface (after manually adding the right modules) to run plugins that are only python3.

So since Doitsu, DiapDealer, Toxaris and myself probably account for the majority of current Sigil plugin developers, are you all okay with moving to Python 3 only after our upcoming Sigil 0.9.6 release?

Please let me know what you think?

Thanks,

KevinH

06-14-2016, 02:15 PM	#25
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,271 Karma: 6565382 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Yes I think it is time we retire python 2.7 support. Almost all of the plugins we have will run on both, but our internal python 3.4 (or later) (and linked version on Linux) comes with lxml, html5lib, cssutils, cssselect, Pillow, tk, six, regex and chardet all guaranteed to be there and available for the user. Supporting Python 2.7 code does not seem to add any real value over and above what python 3.4 provides and removing it would certainly simplify things. Older Sigil users can still use an external Python 3 interface (after manually adding the right modules) to run plugins that are only python3. So since Doitsu, DiapDealer, Toxaris and myself probably account for the majority of current Sigil plugin developers, are you all okay with moving to Python 3 only after our upcoming Sigil 0.9.6 release? Please let me know what you think? Thanks, KevinH