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  1. Python Driver
  2. PYTHON-2133

Drop support for Python 2.7

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    • Epic
    • Status: Closed
    • Major - P3
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 4.0
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      Summary

      Python 2.7 reached end-of-life in 2020. At this point all of the major Python projects, including packaging and installation tools like setuptools and pip, have dropped support. Dropping support for Python 2.7 will accelerate development of the Python driver and dramatically reduce the maintenance burden.

      Note that the 3.x branch of PyMongo, which supports Python 2.7, will continue to receive bug fixes until the second half of 2022.

      Motivation
      Python 3 was released in 2008 and supported in our driver by 2012. 8 years later, we can now see that 75% of PyMongo downloads are Python 3 and many of the most popular Python libraries have already dropped support for Python 2. Continuing to support Python 2 would have significant development cost and would only benefit a small portion of our users.

      Cast of Characters

      • Product Owner: Rachelle Palmer
      • Project Lead:
      • Program Manager: Alexander Golin

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          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2514 Test Failure - SUSE 12 Python 3.4.10 ImportError: No module named 'setuptools'

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2516 Coverage failing: Couldn't combine from non-existent path 'coverage/coverage.*'

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2530 Test failure - MONGODB-AWS Auth Windows: prepare_mongodb_aws.sh: line 2: python3: command not found

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2579 Fix Atlas planned maintenance test runner

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed
          is depended on by

          Epic - Created by Jira Software - do not edit or delete. Issue type for a big user story that needs to be broken down. PYTHON-2387 PyMongo 4.0 Breaking Changes

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2444 Remove code that manually reties on EINTR

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Backlog

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2503 Use time.monotonic always

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2505 Always use match_hostname from the ssl module

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed
          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PYTHON-2190 In-place C extensions cannot be loaded on macOS with Python 2.7

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2187 Remove easy_install from documentation

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Backlog

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2517 Remove any Jython specific code or workarounds

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Backlog

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2435 Add task that runs the test suite with a lower sys.setswitchinterval

          • Minor - P4 - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Backlog

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-1322 Rename py3compat.py to py2compat.py

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-1908 Drop Jython

          • Major - P3 - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Task - A task that needs to be done. PYTHON-2437 Rely on venv instead of virtualenv

          • Minor - P4 - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed
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