{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000461275", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577", "id": 1000461275, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c47odPb", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-12-23T18:18:11Z", "updated_at": "2021-12-23T18:18:11Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "From the Twitter thread, there are still a decent amount of LTS Linux releases out there that are stuck on pre-3.7 Python.\r\n\r\nThough many of those are 3.5 and Datasette dropped support for 3.5 in November 2019: cf7776d36fbacefa874cbd6e5fcdc9fff7661203", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1087913724, "label": "Drop support for Python 3.6"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000461900", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577", "id": 1000461900, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c47odZM", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-12-23T18:19:44Z", "updated_at": "2021-12-23T18:19:44Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "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\r\n\r\nSo 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.\r\n\r\nLeaving this issue open to gather thoughts and feedback on this issue from Datasette users and potential users.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1087913724, "label": "Drop support for Python 3.6"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000462309", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577", "id": 1000462309, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c47odfl", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-12-23T18:20:46Z", "updated_at": "2021-12-23T18:20:46Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "There are a lot of improvements to `asyncio` in 3.7: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#whatsnew37-asyncio", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1087913724, "label": "Drop support for Python 3.6"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1000673444", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577", "id": 1000673444, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c47pRCk", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-12-24T06:08:58Z", "updated_at": "2021-12-24T06:08:58Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "https://pypistats.org/packages/datasette shows a breakdown of downloads by Python version:\r\n\r\n<img width=\"986\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9599/147323253-1ee22d93-3be2-472b-8ead-495d925958e5.png\">\r\n\r\nIt looks like on a recent day I had 4,071 downloads from Python 3.7... and just 2 downloads from Python 3.6!", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1087913724, "label": "Drop support for Python 3.6"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1017109401", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577", "id": 1017109401, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c48n9uZ", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2022-01-20T04:27:34Z", "updated_at": "2022-01-20T04:27:34Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "OK, now that Uvicorn has dropped 3.6 support - see #1606 - I think this decision is easy to make. I'm dropping 3.6.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1087913724, "label": "Drop support for Python 3.6"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1577#issuecomment-1017112130", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1577", "id": 1017112130, "node_id": "IC_kwDOBm6k_c48n-ZC", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2022-01-20T04:33:57Z", "updated_at": "2022-01-20T04:33:57Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "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.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1087913724, "label": "Drop support for Python 3.6"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}