Time to ditch Python 3.7 from the main archive?

[pombredanne]

IMHO now is the time to ditch Python 3.7 support from the main archive and only keep it for a Python 3.7-specific download.

That's shedding about 3MB of seed wheels duped for 3.7:

• pip-24.0-py3-none-any.whl
• setuptools-68.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
• wheel-0.42.0-py3-none-any.whl

After that, the pyz should be about 4MB .... yummy!

[gaborbernat]

Did 18 months pass since end of life of 3.7?

[gaborbernat]

According to my calculation and our policy there is still 6 months left until we can drop it. 🤔

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

@gaborbernat can it be dropped now?

[gaborbernat]

Yes

[gaborbernat]

pypa/virtualenv#2783 dropped it and released via 20.27.0