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Python2 support
See original GitHub issueAs we discussed earlier adding legacy python version support is not much of an effort.
The main difficulty is the manual labour to ensure every .decode() and .encode() calls are in place.
However, there are several questions to answer:
- Is
python2support even needed? - How important it is?
- How should it be tested?
What do you think?
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- Created 7 years ago
- Reactions:1
- Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)
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@aminalaee The advantage is that the library has no dependencies. If we wanna add support of Python 2 we need to add at least one requirement -
six, and it’s not good.@lk-geimfari Ok, I thought it was to be done.