Drop support for Python 3.5 #917
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This commit drops support for running with python 3.5. It marks the minimum supported version of the package as python 3.6, removes python 3.5 package pins, removes the 3.5 CI jobs, and removes the warning on python 3.5. Looking at the PyPI stats since the deprecation period started the number of users on Python 3.5 has diminished significantly, but not disappeared. There were 359 downloads with pip from pypi out of total of 18,980 total pip downloads in the last 30 days. Compared to the roughly 10% figure when we deprecated Python 3.5. Merging this means we can not release until after the documented EoL date for Python 3.5 support of September 13. This shouldn't be a problem because with Qiskit/qiskit#4767 we will need to coordinate the release of all the qiskit elements and are planning to do that after 09/13/2020. It's worth noting that we should start planning to deprecate python 3.6 support sooner rather than later it goes EoL upstream at the end of next year [1] and some of our other upstream dependencies (mainly numpy et al) are going to remove support before the upstream Python EoL date [2]. [1] https://devguide.python.org/#branchstatus [2] https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html
atilag
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I should add a release note here, but since 3.5 windows is blocking CI we can go ahead and merge this and I'll push a release note in a follow up PR after we unblock CI. |
chriseclectic
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Summary
This commit drops support for running with python 3.5. It marks the
minimum supported version of the package as python 3.6, removes python
3.5 package pins, removes the 3.5 CI jobs, and removes the warning on
python 3.5. Looking at the PyPI stats since the deprecation period
started the number of users on Python 3.5 has diminished significantly,
but not disappeared. There were 359 downloads with pip from pypi out of
total of 18,980 total pip downloads in the last 30 days. Compared to the
roughly 10% figure when we deprecated Python 3.5.
Merging this means we can not release until after the documented EoL
date for Python 3.5 support of September 13. This shouldn't be a problem
because with Qiskit/qiskit#4767 we will need to coordinate the
release of all the qiskit elements and are planning to do that after
09/13/2020.
It's worth noting that we should start planning to deprecate python 3.6
support sooner rather than later it goes EoL upstream at the end of
next year [1] and some of our other upstream dependencies (mainly numpy
et al) are going to remove support before the upstream Python EoL date
[2].
Details and comments
[1] https://devguide.python.org/#branchstatus
[2] https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html