only support pythons that are not EOL (https://endoflife.date/python)

Even debian oldstable has python 3.9. For internet-facing libraries it is not secure for contributor to install unsupported python versions in order to test them. Reducing the number of python versions will make maintenance and testing easier. is not secure to contributor to install unsupported python versions in order to test them.
Mic92 · Mic92 · Sep 9, 2024 · Sep 9, 2024 · Sep 9, 2024 · Sep 9, 2024
commit 29d3072ee1f982df582b88b4e120453cbbefd37e
diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-tox.yml b/.github/workflows/python-tox.yml
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ jobs:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
        deps: [base, optional]
        include:
-          - python: "pypy-2.7"
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-            deps: base
          - python: "pypy-3.10"
            os: ubuntu-latest
            deps: base

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ or:

 By default, the ``document`` will be an ``xml.etree`` element instance.
 Whenever possible, html5lib chooses the accelerated ``ElementTree``
-implementation (i.e. ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` on Python 2.x).
+implementation.

 Two other tree types are supported: ``xml.dom.minidom`` and
 ``lxml.etree``. To use an alternative format, specify the name of
@@ -41,18 +41,6 @@ a treebuilder:
  with open("mydocument.html", "rb") as f:
      lxml_etree_document = html5lib.parse(f, treebuilder="lxml")

-When using with ``urllib2`` (Python 2), the charset from HTTP should be
-pass into html5lib as follows:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-  from contextlib import closing
-  from urllib2 import urlopen
-  import html5lib
-
-  with closing(urlopen("http://example.com/")) as f:
-      document = html5lib.parse(f, transport_encoding=f.info().getparam("charset"))
-
 When using with ``urllib.request`` (Python 3), the charset from HTTP
 should be pass into html5lib as follows:

@@ -90,7 +78,7 @@ More documentation is available at https://html5lib.readthedocs.io/.
 Installation
 ------------

-html5lib works on CPython 2.7+, CPython 3.5+ and PyPy. To install:
+html5lib works on CPython 3.8+ and PyPy. To install:

 .. code-block:: bash


diff --git a/html5lib/html5parser.py b/html5lib/html5parser.py
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ def processSpaceCharacters(self, token):
    def processStartTag(self, token):
        # Note the caching is done here rather than BoundMethodDispatcher as doing it there
        # requires a circular reference to the Phase, and this ends up with a significant
-        # (CPython 2.7, 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
+        # (CPython 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
        name = token["name"]
        # In Py2, using `in` is quicker in general than try/except KeyError
        # In Py3, `in` is quicker when there are few cache hits (typically short inputs)
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ def startTagHtml(self, token):
    def processEndTag(self, token):
        # Note the caching is done here rather than BoundMethodDispatcher as doing it there
        # requires a circular reference to the Phase, and this ends up with a significant
-        # (CPython 2.7, 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
+        # (CPython 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
        name = token["name"]
        # In Py2, using `in` is quicker in general than try/except KeyError
        # In Py3, `in` is quicker when there are few cache hits (typically short inputs)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -63,11 +63,7 @@ def default_environment():
    'Operating System :: OS Independent',
    'Programming Language :: Python',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
@@ -109,7 +105,7 @@ def default_environment():
          'six>=1.9',
          'webencodings>=0.5.1',
      ],
-      python_requires=">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*",
+      python_requires=">=3.8",
      extras_require={
          # A conditional extra will only install these items when the extra is
          # requested and the condition matches.

diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py{27,35,36,37,38,39,310,311,py,py3}-{base,optional,oldest}
+envlist = py{38,39,310,311,py,py3}-{base,optional,oldest}

 [testenv]
 deps =

diff --git a/toxver.py b/toxver.py
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@
    $ toxver.py pypy-3.8 base
    TOXENV=pypy3-base

-    $ toxver.py 2.7 oldest
-    TOXENV=py27-oldest
-
    $ toxver.py ~3.12.0-0 optional
    TOXENV=py312-optional

@@ -31,10 +28,6 @@ def main(argv):

    deps = argv[2]

-    if argv[1].startswith("pypy-2"):
-        print("TOXENV=pypy-" + deps)
-        return 0
-
    if argv[1].startswith("pypy-3"):
        print("TOXENV=pypy3-" + deps)
        return 0