only support pythons that are not EOL (https://endoflife.date/python)

Even debian oldstable has python 3.9. For internet-facing libraries it
is not secure for contributor to install unsupported python versions in order to test them.
Reducing the number of python versions will make maintenance and testing easier.
is not secure to contributor to install unsupported python versions in order to test them.

Author: Mic92

.appveyor.yml

@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
         deps: [base, optional]
         include:
-          - python: "pypy-2.7"
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-            deps: base
           - python: "pypy-3.10"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             deps: base

.github/workflows/python-tox.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ or:
 
 By default, the ``document`` will be an ``xml.etree`` element instance.
 Whenever possible, html5lib chooses the accelerated ``ElementTree``
-implementation (i.e. ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` on Python 2.x).
+implementation.
 
 Two other tree types are supported: ``xml.dom.minidom`` and
 ``lxml.etree``. To use an alternative format, specify the name of
@@ -41,18 +41,6 @@ a treebuilder:
   with open("mydocument.html", "rb") as f:
       lxml_etree_document = html5lib.parse(f, treebuilder="lxml")
 
-When using with ``urllib2`` (Python 2), the charset from HTTP should be
-pass into html5lib as follows:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-  from contextlib import closing
-  from urllib2 import urlopen
-  import html5lib
-
-  with closing(urlopen("http://example.com/")) as f:
-      document = html5lib.parse(f, transport_encoding=f.info().getparam("charset"))
-
 When using with ``urllib.request`` (Python 3), the charset from HTTP
 should be pass into html5lib as follows:
 
@@ -90,7 +78,7 @@ More documentation is available at https://html5lib.readthedocs.io/.
 Installation
 ------------
 
-html5lib works on CPython 2.7+, CPython 3.5+ and PyPy. To install:
+html5lib works on CPython 3.8+ and PyPy. To install:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 

README.rst

@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ def processSpaceCharacters(self, token):
     def processStartTag(self, token):
         # Note the caching is done here rather than BoundMethodDispatcher as doing it there
         # requires a circular reference to the Phase, and this ends up with a significant
-        # (CPython 2.7, 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
+        # (CPython 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
         name = token["name"]
         # In Py2, using `in` is quicker in general than try/except KeyError
         # In Py3, `in` is quicker when there are few cache hits (typically short inputs)
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ def startTagHtml(self, token):
     def processEndTag(self, token):
         # Note the caching is done here rather than BoundMethodDispatcher as doing it there
         # requires a circular reference to the Phase, and this ends up with a significant
-        # (CPython 2.7, 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
+        # (CPython 3.8) GC cost when parsing many short inputs
         name = token["name"]
         # In Py2, using `in` is quicker in general than try/except KeyError
         # In Py3, `in` is quicker when there are few cache hits (typically short inputs)

html5lib/html5parser.py

@@ -63,11 +63,7 @@ def default_environment():
     'Operating System :: OS Independent',
     'Programming Language :: Python',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
@@ -109,7 +105,7 @@ def default_environment():
           'six>=1.9',
           'webencodings>=0.5.1',
       ],
-      python_requires=">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*",
+      python_requires=">=3.8",
       extras_require={
           # A conditional extra will only install these items when the extra is
           # requested and the condition matches.

setup.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py{27,35,36,37,38,39,310,311,py,py3}-{base,optional,oldest}
+envlist = py{38,39,310,311,py,py3}-{base,optional,oldest}
 
 [testenv]
 deps =

tox.ini

@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@
     $ toxver.py pypy-3.8 base
     TOXENV=pypy3-base
 
-    $ toxver.py 2.7 oldest
-    TOXENV=py27-oldest
-
     $ toxver.py ~3.12.0-0 optional
     TOXENV=py312-optional
 
@@ -31,10 +28,6 @@ def main(argv):
 
     deps = argv[2]
 
-    if argv[1].startswith("pypy-2"):
-        print("TOXENV=pypy-" + deps)
-        return 0
-
     if argv[1].startswith("pypy-3"):
         print("TOXENV=pypy3-" + deps)
         return 0