Python2 deprecation notice

[traverseda]

Some of the libraries textract uses are no longer supporting python3 with newer releases. Since python2 is EOL I don't think there's any problem with no longer supporting it.

My intent is to do one more release with various bug fixes for python2, and then do a minor version bump named 1.7.0 that incorporates python3 only libraries..

Presuming that sounds good to everyone 1.6.4 is likely to be the last release supporting python2.

[deanmalmgren]

That sounds reasonable to me. Thanks!

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[0LL13]

Oh, that's really cool. The "extract" method in pdf_parser.py says it gracefully falls back on pdfminer if pdftotext is not installed, but the requirements lock on pdfminer.six==20191110 for python2 support which mucks up other packages and doesn't seem to make sense to me if pdftotext is the package of choice anyway.

[traverseda]

Sorry about not being able to move as fast on this as I wanted. There was a death in my family, alongside my job rather suddenly having difficulty paying me, and on the whole I've had a hard time finding the time to work on this. Sorry about that.

[0LL13]

Sorry to hear that!

[tylerganter]

Is there any update on this? this project seems to have endless dependency issues due to continued python 2 support

[seankfh]

Created "Error in textract setup command w/ extract-msg<=0.29.* due to Wheel 0.40.0" #461. I believe extract-msg<=0.29.* is only necessary for Python 2. Can we get consensus on a fork like this #433 @deanmalmgren?