DEPS: Drop Python 3.4 support (pandas-dev#16303)

* DEPS: Drop Python 3.4 support

Closes pandas-devgh-15251.

* TST: Patch locale failure on Circle

ci/requirements-3.4_SLOW.build → ci/requirements-3.6_LOCALE.build

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-python=3.4*
+python=3.6*
 python-dateutil
 pytz
 nomkl
-numpy=1.10*
+numpy
 cython

ci/requirements-3.6_LOCALE.run

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+python-dateutil
+pytz
+numpy
+scipy
+openpyxl
+xlsxwriter
+xlrd
+xlwt
+numexpr
+pytables
+matplotlib
+lxml
+html5lib
+jinja2
+sqlalchemy
+pymysql
+# feather-format (not available on defaults ATM)
+# psycopg2 (not avail on defaults ATM)
+beautifulsoup4
+s3fs
+xarray
+ipython

ci/requirements-3.6_LOCALE_SLOW.build

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+python=3.6*
+python-dateutil
+pytz
+nomkl
+numpy
+cython

ci/requirements-3.6_LOCALE_SLOW.run

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+python-dateutil
+pytz
+numpy
+scipy
+openpyxl
+xlsxwriter
+xlrd
+xlwt
+numexpr
+pytables
+matplotlib
+lxml
+html5lib
+jinja2
+sqlalchemy
+pymysql
+# feather-format (not available on defaults ATM)
+# psycopg2 (not available on defaults ATM)
+beautifulsoup4
+s3fs
+xarray
+ipython

circle.yml

@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ dependencies:
        0)
          sudo apt-get install language-pack-it && ./ci/install_circle.sh JOB="2.7_COMPAT" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="it_IT.UTF-8" ;;
        1)
-         sudo apt-get install language-pack-zh-hans && ./ci/install_circle.sh JOB="3.4_SLOW" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8" ;;
+         sudo apt-get install language-pack-zh-hans && ./ci/install_circle.sh JOB="3.6_LOCALE" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8" ;;
        2)
-         sudo apt-get install language-pack-zh-hans && ./ci/install_circle.sh JOB="3.4" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8" ;;
+         sudo apt-get install language-pack-zh-hans && ./ci/install_circle.sh JOB="3.6_LOCALE_SLOW" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8" ;;
        3)
          ./ci/install_circle.sh JOB="3.5_ASCII" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="C" ;;
       esac

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 Backwards incompatible API changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-
+- Support has been dropped for Python 3.4 (:issue:`15251`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0210.api:
 

pandas/compat/__init__.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Key items to import for 2/3 compatible code:
 * iterators: range(), map(), zip(), filter(), reduce()
 * lists: lrange(), lmap(), lzip(), lfilter()
-* unicode: u() [u"" is a syntax error in Python 3.0-3.2]
+* unicode: u() [no unicode builtin in Python 3]
 * longs: long (int in Python 3)
 * callable
 * iterable method compatibility: iteritems, iterkeys, itervalues
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def signature(f):
     unichr = chr
 
     # This was introduced in Python 3.3, but we don't support
-    # Python 3.x < 3.4, so checking PY3 is safe.
+    # Python 3.x < 3.5, so checking PY3 is safe.
     FileNotFoundError = FileNotFoundError
 
     # list-producing versions of the major Python iterating functions

pandas/tests/util/test_util.py

@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@
 
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
 
-CURRENT_LOCALE = locale.getlocale()
-LOCALE_OVERRIDE = os.environ.get('LOCALE_OVERRIDE', None)
-
 
 class TestDecorators(object):
 
@@ -412,6 +409,7 @@ class TestLocaleUtils(object):
     @classmethod
     def setup_class(cls):
         cls.locales = tm.get_locales()
+        cls.current_locale = locale.getlocale()
 
         if not cls.locales:
             pytest.skip("No locales found")
@@ -421,6 +419,7 @@ def setup_class(cls):
     @classmethod
     def teardown_class(cls):
         del cls.locales
+        del cls.current_locale
 
     def test_get_locales(self):
         # all systems should have at least a single locale
@@ -438,17 +437,19 @@ def test_set_locale(self):
             pytest.skip("Only a single locale found, no point in "
                         "trying to test setting another locale")
 
-        if all(x is None for x in CURRENT_LOCALE):
+        if all(x is None for x in self.current_locale):
             # Not sure why, but on some travis runs with pytest,
             # getlocale() returned (None, None).
-            pytest.skip("CURRENT_LOCALE is not set.")
+            pytest.skip("Current locale is not set.")
+
+        locale_override = os.environ.get('LOCALE_OVERRIDE', None)
 
-        if LOCALE_OVERRIDE is None:
+        if locale_override is None:
             lang, enc = 'it_CH', 'UTF-8'
-        elif LOCALE_OVERRIDE == 'C':
+        elif locale_override == 'C':
             lang, enc = 'en_US', 'ascii'
         else:
-            lang, enc = LOCALE_OVERRIDE.split('.')
+            lang, enc = locale_override.split('.')
 
         enc = codecs.lookup(enc).name
         new_locale = lang, enc
@@ -465,4 +466,4 @@ def test_set_locale(self):
                 assert normalized_locale == new_locale
 
         current_locale = locale.getlocale()
-        assert current_locale == CURRENT_LOCALE
+        assert current_locale == self.current_locale

setup.py

@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ def build_extensions(self):
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
     'Programming Language :: Cython',

tox.ini

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # and then run "tox" from this directory.
 
 [tox]
-envlist = py27, py34, py35
+envlist = py27, py35, py36
 
 [testenv]
 deps =
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ deps =
     bigquery
     {[testenv]deps}
 
-[testenv:py34]
+[testenv:py35]
 deps =
-    numpy==1.8.0
+    numpy==1.10.0
     {[testenv]deps}
 
-[testenv:py35]
+[testenv:py36]
 deps =
-    numpy==1.10.0
+    numpy
     {[testenv]deps}
 
 [testenv:openpyxl1]