[Qgis-developer] Python 2.6 and QGIS version

[Andre Joost]

Am 17.02.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Alex Mandel:
> On 02/17/2015 10:15 AM, Marc Ducobu wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Am 17.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Marc Ducobu:
>>>> /  Hello QGIS devs,
>>> />/
>>> />/  I think that QGIS contains it own python version. My QGIS 2.6 has
>>> the
>>> />/  2.7.9 version of python. Which version of QGIS has the 2.6
>>> version of
>>> />/  python ?
>>> /
>>> QGIS 1.8 Lisboa is the oldest version I have running, and that had
>>> already Python 2.7. I guess you would not like to work with versions
>>> older than that.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> André Joost
>> Thanks a lot for the response.
>>
>> This is very strange because I saw on a mac a QGIS 2.0 with python 2.6
>> in the QGIS console. Maybe it depends on which version of python is
>> installed during the installation ?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>
> QGIS on Mac does not contain it's own python. It uses the system default
> python. Only on Windows do we include python as the OS provides none.
>
> That said, is the real question, at which version did we move to only
> Python 2.7+ working?
>
According to this ticket: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/219
Osgeo4w moved from Python 2.5 to 2.7 three years ago.

https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/RequiresPython mentiones QGIS 1.7.3 
as stable and 1.8.0 as dev version at that time.

HTH,
André Joost