Does ccbench still require 2.6 compatibility?

[smontanaro]

BPO	45638
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[smontanaro]

At the top of Tools/ccbench/ccbench.py is this comment dating from 2010 (probably in the initial version):

# This file should be kept compatible with both Python 2.6 and Python >= 3.0.

Is there still a need for 2.6 compatibility in what is essentially a test script? There are probably only a few changes necessary to remove 2.x compatibility, but it seems odd to retain them when even the Python library documentation no longer has versionchanged/versionadded directives referencing Python 2.x.

[terryjreedy]

Lukasz, is 'delete it' the no-brainer it seems to be?

[smontanaro]

CCbench was mentioned recently in the discussion about Sam Gross's nogil branch:

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/WRT7F2RHHCQ3N2TYEDC6JSIJ4T2ZM6F7/

I'm not convinced that deleting it is a no-brainer. Maybe if it landed somewhere generally useful (pyperformance?).

[terryjreedy]

By 'it' I meant the comment and 2.6 compatibility you asked about.

[StanFromIreland]

ccbench was removed in #101853

[picnixz]

Closing since this 2.6 is EOL and ccbench was removed. Thanks for digging up old issues that can be closed!