html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000461275,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577,1000461275,IC_kwDOBm6k_c47odPb,9599,simonw,2021-12-23T18:18:11Z,2021-12-23T18:18:11Z,OWNER,"From the Twitter thread, there are still a decent amount of LTS Linux releases out there that are stuck on pre-3.7 Python.

Though many of those are 3.5 and Datasette dropped support for 3.5 in November 2019: cf7776d36fbacefa874cbd6e5fcdc9fff7661203","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1087913724,Drop support for Python 3.6,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000461900,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577,1000461900,IC_kwDOBm6k_c47odZM,9599,simonw,2021-12-23T18:19:44Z,2021-12-23T18:19:44Z,OWNER,"The 3.7 feature I want to use today is [contextvars](https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextvars.html) - but I have a workaround for the moment, see https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1576#issuecomment-999987418

So I'm going to hold off on dropping 3.6 for a little bit longer. I imagine I'll drop it before Datasette 1.0 though.

Leaving this issue open to gather thoughts and feedback on this issue from Datasette users and potential users.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1087913724,Drop support for Python 3.6,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000462309,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577,1000462309,IC_kwDOBm6k_c47odfl,9599,simonw,2021-12-23T18:20:46Z,2021-12-23T18:20:46Z,OWNER,There are a lot of improvements to `asyncio` in 3.7: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#whatsnew37-asyncio,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1087913724,Drop support for Python 3.6,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000673444,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577,1000673444,IC_kwDOBm6k_c47pRCk,9599,simonw,2021-12-24T06:08:58Z,2021-12-24T06:08:58Z,OWNER,"https://pypistats.org/packages/datasette shows a breakdown of downloads by Python version:

<img width=""986"" alt=""image"" src=""https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/147323253-1ee22d93-3be2-472b-8ead-495d925958e5.png"">

It looks like on a recent day I had 4,071 downloads from Python 3.7... and just 2 downloads from Python 3.6!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1087913724,Drop support for Python 3.6,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1017109401,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577,1017109401,IC_kwDOBm6k_c48n9uZ,9599,simonw,2022-01-20T04:27:34Z,2022-01-20T04:27:34Z,OWNER,"OK, now that Uvicorn has dropped 3.6 support - see #1606 - I think this decision is easy to make. I'm dropping 3.6.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1087913724,Drop support for Python 3.6,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1017112130,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577,1017112130,IC_kwDOBm6k_c48n-ZC,9599,simonw,2022-01-20T04:33:57Z,2022-01-20T04:33:57Z,OWNER,"Dropped support for Python 3.6: updated `setup.py`, changed all references in the documentation to say 3.7 is the minimum required version, got rid of the GitHub Actions tests against 3.6.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1087913724,Drop support for Python 3.6,