On 19/07/2015 13:10, Vitaly Murashev wrote:
I've just found out that that on Windows internal implementation of python35.dll in posixmodule.c uses winapi function GetFinalPathNameByHandleW By the way from MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364962%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Minimum supported client Windows Vista [desktop apps only] Minimum supported server Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only] Does it mean, that Python-3.5 doesn't support any windows versions prior "Windows Vista" and "Windows Server 2008" ?
In essence: yes. Python's support for Windows is outlined in PEP 11: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#microsoft-windowswhich establishes that Python drops support for a Windows platform when Microsoft does. WinXP (somewhat noisily) finished support last year:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/end-support-helpwhile Server 2003 -- more quietly; I had to go and look -- came out of extended support this month:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=3198Since Python 3.5 will come out after both of those platforms have finished support, there's no guarantee that it will run without error on those systems. Obviously, all earlier releases of Python -- including the long-term-supported 2.7 should continue to work. Any otherwise undocumented failure to work on older platforms should be raised as a bug.
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