Merge pull request #89 from jakirkham/drop_py34

Drop Python 3.4

.travis.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ addons:
 
 python:
   - 2.7
-  - 3.4
   - 3.5
   - 3.6
 

appveyor.yml

@@ -19,13 +19,6 @@ environment:
       PYTHON_VERSION: "2.7"
       DISTUTILS_USE_SDK: "1"
 
-    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python34"
-      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.4"
-
-    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python34-x64"
-      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.4"
-      DISTUTILS_USE_SDK: "1"
-
     - PYTHON: "C:\\Python35"
       PYTHON_VERSION: "3.5"
 

docs/contributing.rst

@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ To also run the doctests within docstrings, run::
 Tests can be run under different Python versions using tox. E.g. (assuming you have the
 corresponding Python interpreters installed on your system)::
 
-    $ tox -e py27,py34,py35,py36
+    $ tox -e py27,py35,py36
 
-NumCodecs currently supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.4-3.6, so the above command must
+NumCodecs currently supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.5-3.6, so the above command must
 succeed before code can be accepted into the main code base. Note that only the py36
 tox environment runs the doctests, i.e., doctests only need to succeed under Python 3.6.
 

docs/release.rst

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Release notes
 * Updated the msgpack dependency (by :user:`Jerome Kelleher <jeromekelleher>`;
   :issue:`74`, :issue:`75`).
 
+* Drop Python 3.4 (by :user:`John Kirkham <jakirkham>`; :issue:`89`).
+
 .. _release_0.5.5:
 
 0.5.5

setup.py

@@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ def run_setup(with_extensions):
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
         ],
         author='Alistair Miles',
         author_email='alimanfoo@googlemail.com',

tox.ini

@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@
 # and then run "tox" from this directory.
 
 [tox]
-envlist = py27, py34, py35, py36, docs
+envlist = py27, py35, py36, docs
 
 [testenv]
 setenv =
     PYTHONHASHSEED = 42
     # hooks for coverage exclusions based on Python major version
-    py34,py35,py36: PY_MAJOR_VERSION = py3
+    py35,py36: PY_MAJOR_VERSION = py3
     py27: PY_MAJOR_VERSION = py2
 commands =
     python setup.py build_ext --inplace
-    py27,py34,py35: pytest -v --cov=numcodecs numcodecs
+    py27,py35: pytest -v --cov=numcodecs numcodecs
     py36: pytest -v --cov=numcodecs --doctest-modules --doctest-glob=*.pyx numcodecs
     coverage report -m
     py36: flake8 --max-line-length=100 numcodecs