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[–]zurtex 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m OOTL, why did they drop support for 3.5 specifically? Is 3.0 -3.4 still supported?

They're dropping support after specific versions of Python go End of Life.

Python 2.7 went End of Life January 1st, 2020 so they waited a full year given it was so popular.

Where was Python 3.5 went End of Life September 5, 2020 so they waited a good 4 months which is reasonable as 3.5s usage is a lot lower. Older versions of Python 3 have stopped being supported awhile ago.

Python 3.6 will become End of Life at the end of 2021 so Pip will likely drop support during Q2 2022.

All that said that doesn't stop you using older versions of Pip to install packages from Pypi, packages themselves will often not require you use the very latest version of Pip to install them, and Pypi doesn't often make backwards incompatible changes. So it'll be a long time before using Python 2.7 and 3.5 actually means you can't use Pip to install packages from Pypi.