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Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/cclauss/patch-3 into master Jan 28, 2019

As recommended at https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25759#issuecomment-458139766

Python 2.6 end of life statement in 2013: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/#release-lifespan
Python 2.7 end of life statement in 2019: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#update
Python 3.4 reaches it end of life in < 50 days so it should not be a target: https://devguide.python.org/#branchstatus

Checklist

make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
tests and/or benchmarks are included
documentation is changed or added
commit message follows commit guidelines