Python 3.7 Support Removed To Early? about ansible HOT 6 CLOSED

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Duplicate of #83357 (comment)

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As stated in the documentation you linked, ansible-core supports the 6 most recently released Python versions. That is currently:

1. 3.12
2. 3.11
3. 3.10
4. 3.9
5. 3.8
6. 3.7

3.6 is outside that range, so its removal was not too early.

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3.6 has also been EOL (from a CPython perspective) since 2021-12-23 https://devguide.python.org/versions/, 3.7 since 2023-06-27.

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Counting fair enough - I'll give you that. The other stands - this project manages other systems that might have their own support around Python like EL8 maintains Python 3.6 in the context of platform-python. Is it "right" to exclude those hosts from management? The platforms maintain their own python separate of upstream Python EoL. The explanation around EL8 so far has been installing ansible-core focused. This removal affects the ability to manage an otherwise supported platform. This is akin to just deciding not to support Windows 2019 because it's the N-1 of the current release (Windows 2022).

I totally understand the control node side wanting to be more aggressive. That's also a much smaller blast radius and doesn't exclude ansible from being used to manage hosts that are otherwise and for good reason going to be in the ecosystem for a much longer time-span. If not why did Python 2.6 support stay around for so long? It's also a lot easier for users to install and update control or execution nodes to have proper python versions.

EE's help but I don't think it's the right answer.

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Closing per #83395 (comment).

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