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Fixed #17965 -- Definitely dropped support for Python 2.5. Thanks jonash for the initial patch and Aymeric Augustin for the review.

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@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ How do I get started?
What are Django's prerequisites?
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Django requires Python_, specifically any version of Python from 2.5
through 2.7. No other Python libraries are required for basic Django
usage.
Django requires Python_, specifically Python 2.6 or 2.7.
No other Python libraries are required for basic Django usage.
For a development environment -- if you just want to experiment with Django --
you don't need to have a separate Web server installed; Django comes with its
@ -39,15 +38,14 @@ PostgreSQL fans, and MySQL_, `SQLite 3`_, and Oracle_ are also supported.
.. _`SQLite 3`: http://www.sqlite.org/
.. _Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/
Do I lose anything by using Python 2.5 versus newer Python versions, such as Python 2.6 or 2.7?
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Do I lose anything by using Python 2.6 versus newer Python versions, such as Python 2.7?
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Not in the core framework. Currently, Django itself officially supports any
version of Python from 2.5 through 2.7, inclusive. However, newer versions of
Not in the core framework. Currently, Django itself officially supports
Python 2.6 and 2.7. However, newer versions of
Python are often faster, have more features, and are better supported. If you
use a newer version of Python you will also have access to some APIs that
aren't available under older versions of Python. For example, since Python 2.6,
you can use the advanced string formatting described in :pep:`3101`.
aren't available under older versions of Python.
Third-party applications for use with Django are, of course, free to set their
own version requirements.
@ -58,7 +56,7 @@ versions as part of a migration which will end with Django running on Python 3
All else being equal, we recommend that you use the latest 2.x release
(currently Python 2.7). This will let you take advantage of the numerous
improvements and optimizations to the Python language since version 2.5, and
improvements and optimizations to the Python language since version 2.6, and
will help ease the process of dropping support for older Python versions on
the road to Python 3.