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| author | Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org> | 2009-10-23 19:30:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org> | 2009-10-23 19:30:23 +0000 |
| commit | 7098664940567c772a45ad98f9ee936063a1102e (patch) | |
| tree | ab05ffcfc60d36e29ce2134c1013654bb719da75 /docs/faq | |
| parent | 8be1bb2268b09e5ea33ccf07d602feed8b075146 (diff) | |
Removed mentions of Python 2.3 support from the docs -- Django 1.2 drops support for Python 2.3 -- and added a quick FAQ about that dropping of support.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@11640 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/faq/install.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/faq/install.txt b/docs/faq/install.txt index fb8005c7e7..ac694a355c 100644 --- a/docs/faq/install.txt +++ b/docs/faq/install.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ How do I get started? What are Django's prerequisites? -------------------------------- -Django requires Python_, specifically any version of Python from 2.3 +Django requires Python_, specifically any version of Python from 2.4 through 2.6. No other Python libraries are required for basic Django usage. @@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ PostgreSQL fans, and MySQL_, `SQLite 3`_, and Oracle_ are also supported. .. _`SQLite 3`: http://www.sqlite.org/ .. _Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/ -Do I lose anything by using Python 2.3 versus newer Python versions, such as Python 2.5? +Do I lose anything by using Python 2.4 versus newer Python versions, such as Python 2.5 or 2.6? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not in the core framework. Currently, Django itself officially -supports any version of Python from 2.3 through 2.6, +supports any version of Python from 2.4 through 2.6, inclusive. However, some add-on components may require a more recent Python version; the ``django.contrib.gis`` component, for example, requires at least Python 2.4, and third-party applications for use @@ -59,10 +59,17 @@ which will end with Django running on Python 3.0 (see next question for details). So if you're just starting out with Python, it's recommended that you use the latest 2.x release (currently, Python 2.6). This will let you take advantage of the numerous improvements -and optimizations to the Python language since version 2.3, and will +and optimizations to the Python language since version 2.4, and will help ease the process of dropping support for older Python versions on the road to Python 3.0. +Can I use Django with Python 2.3? +--------------------------------- + +Django 1.1 (and earlier) supported Python 2.3. Django 1.2 and newer does not. +We highly recommend you upgrade Python if at all possible, but Django 1.1 will +continue to work on Python 2.3. + Can I use Django with Python 3.0? --------------------------------- |