Consider deprecating python 2.7 (And any possible python 2 compatibility) (Duplicate)

[Himanshu_Mishra]

Dropping complete python 2 compatibility will give us power to move to much powerful, asyncio framework of python 3.5.3+. Also, python 2 itself is on it’s final journey (https://pythonclock.org/ tells us we’ve only got 7 months left). An official announcement should be made to ensure python 3.5.3+ for ERPNext v12+

edit: https://python3statement.org/

[Himanshu_Mishra]

ERPNext + Python 3

Namaste, We’re glad to announce that we’re soon porting from developing Frappe Applications (Frappe, ERPNext, etc.) with Python 3 (3.5+ and above, it was time we did) and drop our support for Python 2 (soon). This decision comes after a call made out by the PEP team to support Python 2.7 until 2020. We’re also witnessing a large number of popular Python libs porting to Python 3. Complete support shall be provided for Frappe Apps published by the team at Frappe. We do not provide extended suppo…

Just found out this is already planned. Way to go ERPNext !!