Compatibility

Python versions

We strive to have released versions support all Python versions actively maintained at the time of release, but due to logistical constraints and major syntactical reworks in 3.12, we will not support Python 3.11 or below. However, the weaker promise to support all actively maintained versions of Python will be upheld; that is, users need never worry about support for the newest version and the one before it. Also, this codebase is quite future-proof, integrating modern features such as lazy imports non-intrusively and using the newest compatible syntax.

Our compatibility layer, currently backports the shutdown() method of asyncio.Queue and the Placeholder support in functools.partial(). The latter performs slower than its C-accelerated counterpart.

See PEP 602 for a detailed explanation of the Python release cycle, and the status of Python versions.

Support matrix

asyncutils version	CPython version
6.0 - 6.11	3.14+
5.0 - 5.7	3.13+
1.0.0 - 4.7	3.12+
0.8.18 - 0.9.16 (EOL)	3.12+
0.8.0 - 0.8.17 (EOL)	3.14+