<story><title>NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7</title><url>https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lykr0n</author><text>Just rip the band-aid off. Some of the async stuff in Python 3 is awesome.&lt;p&gt;A bit curious that 3.4 has been dropped, as that&amp;#x27;s the stock Python 3 shipped for CentOS 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalefranz</author><text>I generally try to leave the system python alone. Use pyenv or conda to get the python interpreters for your own code and apps.</text></comment>
<story><title>NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7</title><url>https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lykr0n</author><text>Just rip the band-aid off. Some of the async stuff in Python 3 is awesome.&lt;p&gt;A bit curious that 3.4 has been dropped, as that&amp;#x27;s the stock Python 3 shipped for CentOS 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrosett</author><text>The code I&amp;#x27;ve written recently relies heavily on async and data classes, both of which are recent additions. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine choosing Python 2 at this point.</text></comment>