Waylan Limberg

> I think it is past time for Python 2.7 to retire (and I am tired of supporting it) So am I. Yet, it seems that a significant portion of...

Barring any strong objection, I'm inclined to drop support for Python 2.7 in the next release (3.2). > As a general rule, I expect we will drop support for a...

Oops, didn't mean to close this.

With the release of Python 3.9 (due today), Python is adopting [PEP 602][1] which is changing Python's release cycle. The new cycle is for a major version to be released...

According to this [example chart][1] in the PEP showing how the changes affect release and EOF dates, it looks like we would have 5 Python versions receiving support rather than...

This does not surprise me. I always objected to Smartypants being a Markdown extension instead of an external post processor. It was never designed to be performant. You have 2...

Interesting proposal. I'm wondering if perhaps a better solution is to add support for [attr_list][0], much like we do with [fenced code blocks][1]. The simple (one class) form can continue...

BTW, I've been kicking around the idea of creating a new extension for a general purpose block, which could complexly negate the need for the admonition extension. I'm thinking that...

This puts us in a weird jam. We need to monkeypatch the html parser. However, we should never be changing the behavior of the default parser. For example, a user...

I just did some digging on this issue and it appears that this has been fixed upstream (in Python's `zipimport` module) in https://bugs.python.org/issue42131 (see the changes in [d2e94bb0][1]). It would...