As someone who argued for removing python 2 support for recent flatbuffers version, im very interested what your use case is where you have a up to date flatbuffers version but a horribly outdated python version?

As someone who argued for removing python 2 support for recent flatbuffers version, im very interested what your use case is where you have a up to date flatbuffers version but a horribly outdated python version?

My employer is toying with the idea of using flatbuffers in an environment that is using Stackless Python 2.7.x. since forever ago.

We are of course open to pinning the flatbuffers version as well, but since the only change required for compatibility is this, I decided to propose it.

It would be excellent to get this merged as someone who's employer is also stuck on an old fork of stackless

@aardappel i guess this would be good since some people still use python 2.7

I thought we had decided to stop supporting Python 2.x, but this is such a small change I think we can merge it if that helps.

There's a small conflict though, if you could fix that first.

#8799 implements this fix. Closing this PR.