Commit df2d828d authored by Alex Gaynor's avatar Alex Gaynor
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Clarify in the documentation that we occasionally add APIs for newer Python... 

Clarify in the documentation that we occasionally add APIs for newer Python versions.  Thanks to Russell, Jannis, and Carl for help with the language.

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@@ -45,7 +45,13 @@ Do I lose anything by using Python 2.4 versus newer Python versions, such as Pyt 


Not in the core framework. Currently, Django itself officially supports any

version of Python from 2.4 through 2.7, inclusive. However, newer versions of

Python are often faster, have more features, and are better supported.

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 Django provides

some `context managers`_ for various operations. If you use Python 2.4 you

won't be able to use them, however other APIs which provide the same

functionality are always made available.



Third-party applications for use with Django are, of course, free to set their

own version requirements.
@@ -59,6 +65,8 @@ improvements and optimizations to the Python language since version 2.4, and 
will help ease the process of dropping support for older Python versions on

the road to Python 3.



.. _context managers: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#context-managers



Can I use Django with Python 2.3?

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