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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-06-17 21:54:05 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-06-17 21:54:05 -0700
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Merge branch 'dl/python-2.7-is-the-floor-version'
Document that we do not support Python 2.6 or older. * dl/python-2.7-is-the-floor-version: CodingGuidelines: specify Python 2.7 is the oldest version
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@@ -489,16 +489,11 @@ For Python scripts:
- We follow PEP-8 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/).
- - As a minimum, we aim to be compatible with Python 2.6 and 2.7.
+ - As a minimum, we aim to be compatible with Python 2.7.
- Where required libraries do not restrict us to Python 2, we try to
also be compatible with Python 3.1 and later.
- - When you must differentiate between Unicode literals and byte string
- literals, it is OK to use the 'b' prefix. Even though the Python
- documentation for version 2.6 does not mention this prefix, it has
- been supported since version 2.6.0.
-
Error Messages
- Do not end error messages with a full stop.