RE: [PATCH 3/6] git-p4: Removed support for Python 2

From: Joel Holdsworth <jholdsworth@nvidia.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2021, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID: <BN8PR12MB33615F9CF2F6838507A06C46C8719@BN8PR12MB3361.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
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> There are pretty large user bases on centos/rhel 7+8 where python3.6 is the
> default version.
> 
> If we don't necessarily require any features from 3.7 then it might be worth
> lowering this constraint to allow 3.6 or maybe even 3.4 to maximize the
> number of users that would benefit.
> 
> I realize these python versions are retired according to the python core
> team, but I tend to be a little more sympathetic to users when it doesn't
> have any impact on the code.

I don't mind 3.6 - I don't need any features from 3.7 or newer.

I draw the line at Python 2, though.