Enforcing python version in setup.py

Question

Currently, we are setting\\installing up some packages on system by mentioning their version and dependencies in setup.py under install_requires at

Answer 1

As the setup.py file is installed via pip (and pip itself is run by the python interpreter) it is not possible to specify which Python version to use in the setup.py file.

Instead have a look at this answer to setup.py: restrict the allowable version of the python interpreter which has a basic workaround to stop the install.

In your case the code would be:

import sys
if sys.version_info < (2,7):
    sys.exit('Sorry, Python < 2.7 is not supported')