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-windows
which 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-help
while 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=3198
Since 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.
TJG
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