[Twisted-Python] PotentialZombieWarning warning message?

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz
<glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> I did a pip install and it said I needed Python 2.7 or higher. Let me
> reevaluate if I can just update twisted.
>
>
> Try `pip install twisted==15.4´ if you still require Python2.6 support; `pip
> install twisted´ will install the latest, which no longer works on 2.6.

Yeah, that's what I did. It's working now!

> But again: Python 2.6 is unsupported by the upstream Python developers.  You
> really should not be using it, since it won't receive security updates (of
> course, Red Hat and transitively CentOS claim to "support" these packages,
> but if upstream is refusing patches at this point, it's not clear where that
> support will come from).

As you can imagine, this boils down to politics.

> If you must use CentOS 6, then I'd recommend installing PyPy 4.0 from
> https://github.com/squeaky-pl/portable-pypy#portable-pypy-distribution-for-linux
> and using that.  In addition to being security-supported, it will also make
> your python code run 10x faster :).

Interesting, I'll take a look.

-aps