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paho 1.6.x is _not_ compatible with Python 2.7 #713

Closed akx closed 9 months ago

akx commented 1 year ago

The documentation says Paho should be compatible with Python 2.7, but in reality it is not quite. Commit 4910b785a49b989e150eb11e87f7ca5aad38992a added a reference to ConnectionError, which is documented to have been added in Python 3.3 (see the relevant PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-3151/).

Since Python 2.7 has been end-of-life for three years, maybe one more 1.6.x series bugfix release (with #714) to make it compatible with Python 2.7 again, and then actually dropping support for it?

(Related Stack Overflow issue)

Sunderfield commented 1 year ago

Please stop using python 2.7. It is no longer supported, It has not had a security update since 1 jan 2020. Python page for more information

akx commented 1 year ago

@Sunderfield I'm well aware of that (as you can see from the SO issue I linked, and in fact the issue text here). The problem is that paho.mqtt.python claims to be compatible with it, but is not.