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# Moving to require Python 3
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- All of the major projects making up the Scientific Python stack now support
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+ Almost all major open souce Python packages now support
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both Python 3.x and Python 2.7, and many projects have been supporting these
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two versions of the language for several years. While we have developed tools
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and techniques to maintain compatibility efficiently, it is a small but
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the many new features in the current version of the Python language and
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standard library.
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- In addition, significantly before 2020, some of our projects will step down
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- Python 2.7 support to only fixing bugs, and make new feature releases which
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- require Python 3. This too parallels support for the language itself, as Python
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+ In addition, significantly before 2020, many of our projects will step down
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+ Python 2.7 support to only fixing bugs, and require Python 3 for all new
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+ feature releases. Some projects have already made this transition.
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+ This too parallels support for the language itself, as Python
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2.7 releases only include bugfixes and security improvements.
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Third parties may offer paid support for our projects on old Python versions
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for longer than we support them ourselves. We won’t obstruct this, and it is a
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core principle of free and open source software that this is possible. However,
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- if you enjoy the free, first party support for many projects in the Scientific
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+ if you enjoy the free, first party support for many projects including the Scientific
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Python stack, please start planning to move to Python 3.
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For all of these reasons, the following projects have pledged to ** drop support
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