Dropping support for Python 2 and Python 3 below 3.5

[webknjaz]

🕒 It's time.

I'd like to implement dropping the support on Dec 31st, 2019 because I still hope to find some time to improve a few things that I'd like to make it into py2-supported version.

❓ I'm submitting a ...

• 🐞 bug report
• 🐣 feature request
• ❓ question about the decisions made in the repository

🐞 Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Maintenance burden. Inability to use new language features.

🐣 Describe the solution you'd like

Drop support for old Python versions.

📋 Describe alternatives you've considered

Keep suffering?

📋 Additional context

https://python3statement.org

[jaraco]

There's nothing to stop someone (especially maintainers) from contributing to cheroot prior to the 3.x-only release. We can even create a maint/8.x branch to mirror what CherryPy has for LTS.

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[webknjaz]

Current status: I want to do this after #262 and #243. And maybe #256 if we can decide to go for it.

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