[Twisted-Python] [RFC] Drop support for Python 3.5 sometime after May 2021?

[Moshe Zadka]

May 2021 seems to be right around when Xenial (Which has 3.5) falls into ESM, so maybe we can wait?
I don't have strong feelings, but it is a datapoint.

Moshe Z.

On Wed, May 13, 2020, at 22:13, Glyph wrote:
> On May 13, 2020, at 10:04 PM, Amber Brown (hawkowl) <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On 14/5/20 5:10 am, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> >> I would like to propose that Twisted drop support for Python 3.5 one year from now in 2021.
> > 
> > I was considering proposing dropping it soon (I was thinking when we had 3.8 support, that 3.6/3.7/3.8 is a reasonable compatibility matrix).
> 
> 
> I'm also inclined to say sooner rather than later; I don't know the numbers but my impression is that 3.x uptake began for real at 3.4 and in earnest at 3.6, so there aren't that many people still on 3.5.
> 
> The lack of variable annotations, in particular, seems like a sticking point with 3.5 as we attempt to adopt mypy.
> 
> -g
> 
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