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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Unable to Lint or Render the PEPs Using Older Python Versions","articleBody":"Context: my /usr/bin/python3 is 3.6.  I've also tried with 3.7 and 3.8.  I've tried it with venvs and without.\r\n\r\nThere are a number of problems here:\r\n\r\n* Makefile hard-codes `$(PYTHON)` to /usr/bin/python3\r\n* there is no way to specify which python executable I want to use (e.g. passing the \"PYTHON\" variable to make)\r\n* `make lint` fails (assignment expressions)\r\n* `make sphinx` fails (no \"`from future import __annotations__`\", missing \"from future\" statements, no str.removeprefix, no `__class_getitem__`)\r\n* we are running `pre-commit` rather than `$(PYTHON) -m pre_commit\r\n* CI hides these problems\r\n\r\nI would expect to be able to do all of the above using older Python versions.  3.8+ would be good, but 3.6+ would be better.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ericsnowcurrently","@type":"Person","name":"ericsnowcurrently"},"datePublished":"2022-03-09T23:42:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":17},"url":"https://github.com/2402/peps/issues/2402"}