Re: Couldn't install numpy on Python 2.7

On 2024-06-12 17:31, AVI GROSS via Python-list wrote:

I am sure there is inertia to move from an older product and some people
need a reason like this where the old becomes untenable.
 It seems Microsoft is having a problem where something lik 2/3 of Windows
users have not upgraded from Windows 10 after many years and have set a
deadline in a year or so for stopping updates. In that case, hardware was a
concern for some as Windows 11 did not work on their machines. With
upgrading python, the main concern is having to get someone to examine old
code and try to make it compatible.
 

In the case of Windows, my PC is over 10 years old yet performs perfectly well for my needs. It can't run Windows 11. Therefore, I'm in the process of migrating to Linux, and I still have over a year to achieve that before support ends.

But anyone doing new code in Python 2 in recent years should ...
 

Indeed...

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Subject: Re: Couldn't install numpy on Python 2.7
 On 12/06/2024 12:30, marc nicole wrote:

I am trying to install numpy library on Python 2.7.15 in PyCharm but the
error message I get is:
 ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement numpy (from

versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for numpy
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:164:
InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This
prevents urllib3 fro
m configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to
fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For

more

information, see
https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
   InsecurePlatformWarning,

  Any clues?

 Why are you using Python 2? Come on, it's been 16 years. Ya gotta move
on at some point.