Hamish Willee

Ubuntu 18.04 is running Python 3.6, which might be a blocker

@auturgy @peterbarker Didn't you say we had dropped support for Python 2? I think we should formalise that across the project, starting by removing the Python 2.7 checks from CI....

Our customers and those of the Python core team are different, and have different lifecycles. Our usage of python is not one where a million % increase in performance would...

They care about safety, but for the most part old Python versions do not affect that in the drone domain. The code on the flight stack isn't running Python -...

Just had a discussion with @peterbarker (who also chatted to @tridge). We're in principle very happy to drop support for Python 2. What we mean by this is that: -...

@rotu I could not agree more re "1". Hence raising on the meeting. Currently I'm getting resistance on removing 3.6 as it is the default version installed on Ubuntu 18.04,...

> For new versions of the python interpreter, there's another solution: python_requires. e.g. If I add a python_requires>=3.6 constraint, then users of python 3.5 who pip install or depend on...

@peterbarker >Don't break people's working setups as far as we can avoid it. That's not documented. Just trying to be nice. In principle, of course, but exactly who's setup are...

@cclauss Little of that traffic is likely driven by drones. Peter is also not particularly concerned about the majority. What is concerned about (rightly IMO) is cost of breaking drone...

@peterbarker Thank you for the article - that is interesting. The article does point out that dict is ordered "by luck" in Python 3.6, and yes you can use OrderedDict....