Timeline for dropping Python 2.x support
Official support for Python 2 will be discontinued starting from January, 1st 2020
The PyOWM project has a plan to gradually transition 2.x support to that date
- You're OK with PyOWM until release 2.9
- You will get 2.x bugfixes implemented until January, 1st 2020 and you will be able to obtain them by installing the ad-hoc
v2.9-LTSbranch - From release 2.10 on, PyOWM will only work on Python 3.x
If you will try to update PyOWM from a release < 2.9 to the latest available - say, via pip - you will get release 2.9 even if higher releases will be available (as these will only support Python 3.x)
That will be impossible: on Python 2.x platforms you will only be able to get PyOWM releases up to 2.9. If you then want to install the v2.9-LTS branch code updates, you will need to do this manually by:
- git cloning the
v2.9-LTSbranch - running
setup.py
You wont' have any issue: 🌞 shines in the sky
The last PyOWM release with dual support for Python 2.x and 3.x is release 2.9
Release 2.9 will benefit of a "Long Term Support" (LTS) for
- bug fixing
- fixing of 2.x specific issues
Upon release 2.9 a new branch called v2.9-LTS will be created from the master branch, and the above mentioned fixes will be then applied on such a branch
The v2.9-LTS branch will not embed any new feature and will not be released to PyPi (it will only be installable via git clone + setup.py).
The v2.9-LTS branch will be operated until January, 1st 2020. After that date, a tag will be made out of the branch and the branch will be closed, therefore ending Python 2.x support forever
After branching out the v2.9-LTS branch, the develop branch will remove support to Python 2.x (as part of release 2.10).
This means that from release 2.10 on, PyOWM will only work on Python 3.x
Here is a visual representation of the timeline:
