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Policy for dropping python versions

• Python versions will be kept at least 2 years after EOL
• Python versions will be dropped 4 years after EOL at the latest
• Between those two dates, versions will be dropped if their overall download proportion at the beginning of the graph is less than 3%

This can be summed-up as:

	2025-10	2026-01	2026-10	2027-06	2027-10	2028-10	2029-10	2030-10	2031-10
Python 3.6	🧟	❌
Python 3.7	🧟	🧟	🧟	❌
Python 3.8	💀	💀	🧟	🧟	🧟	❌
Python 3.9	💀	💀	💀	💀	🧟	🧟	❌
Python 3.10	✅	✅	💀	💀	💀	🧟	🧟	❌
Python 3.11	✅	✅	✅	✅	💀	💀	🧟	🧟	❌
Python 3.12	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	💀	💀	🧟	🧟
Python 3.13	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	💀	💀	🧟
Python 3.14	🚀	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	💀	💀
Python 3.15	🔨	🔨	🚀	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	💀
Python 3.16			🔨	🔨	🚀	✅	✅	✅	✅
Python 3.17					🔨	🚀	✅	✅	✅
Python 3.18						🔨	🚀	✅	✅
Python 3.19							🔨	🚀	✅

Legend:

• ❌: Drop unconditionally 4 years after EOL
• 🧟: EOL versions that are still shown if their overall download proportion at the beginning of the graph is more than 3%
• 💀: EOL versions that are still shown unconditionally
• ✅: non-EOL python versions
• 🚀: release of new python version
• 🔨: pre-release shown in preview

Thanks

This is derivative work from Drop Python, a site that tracks progress of packages dropping old (EOL) python versions. Thanks also to Python Wheels, a site that tracks progress in the new Python package distribution standard called Wheels, Python 3 Wall of Superpowers for the concept and making their code open source, and see also Python 3 Readiness.