alt Hacker News3.10 is EOL and no longer supported: https://devguide.python.org/versions/
My policy is that if the Python version isn't supported then I don't have to take steps to support it either.
If you're stuck with 3.10 that's fine, you'll just be stuck with the versions of my packages that I released prior to October 2026.
Thankfully Python packaging has metadata which means "pip install X" will continue to get you the most recent release which is compatible with your Python version.
Realizing this is the thing that gave me the freedom to finally stop worrying about all of those stale installations.
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That's only the interpreter released by the Python Software Foundation itself. I can't even remember how long its been since I installed their interpreter but probably at least a decade. In recent years its been Miniforge and before that was Anaconda (before they changed their licensing terms for orgs with 200+ people).
That said, its fair enough to drop support for a particular version whenever you want. I'm merely pointing out that there other providers of Python interpreters that are both widely used and support older versions longer. Other folks mentioned OS distributed doing the same already, but personally I don't use the system interpreter and just leave it alone for whatever the distro needs it for.
> If you're stuck with 3.10 that's fine, you'll just be stuck with the versions of my packages that I released prior to October 2026.
Then why not just support Python >= 3.14 or whatever and that's it?