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Data Analysis and Visualization in Python for Ecologists
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Refer to current version of Python #588

Closed maneesha closed 7 months ago

maneesha commented 7 months ago

How could the content be improved?

In the installation section we say to use any Python 3.x version, and that 3.6 is fine. We should now be on 3.8+ as 3.7 hit EOL in June 2023.

Which part of the content does your suggestion apply to?

https://datacarpentry.org/python-ecology-lesson/#installing-python-using-anaconda

quist00 commented 7 months ago

I think we should bump the minimum recommendation to at least 3.10, which has 2.5 years until EOL. Also I think including the EOL date and just refer to it as the end of security updates, so that way maintainers don't need to adjust it for a long while and it will be obvious then when it will be out of date and needs to be updated more pro-actively rather than relying on someone catching it like you did. :)