[TIP] unittest2 supported versions

Julian Berman julian at grayvines.com
Mon Oct 20 18:51:46 PDT 2014


2.6+ is both what's convenient for me (bias) and what I tend to support
when writing my own software. I use unittest2 to do so.

The extra syntax and functionality in 2.7 tends to be easy to avoid.

-J
On 20 Oct 2014 21:48, "Robert Collins" <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:

> unittest2 serves as a backport of unittest features to older python.
>
> What versions does it need to support?
>
> It currently supports 2.4+, but even 2.6 is now fully dead.
>
> So I'd like to suggest that the versions which Python itself is doing
> security fixes on be the only versions that we test against - I don't
> want to have to run non-security-supported releases of Python in order
> to test that new releases of unittest2 work.
>
> -Rob
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