Drop Python 3.5 support (#165)

In the process of making a new release, I realised we no longer builds
Python 3.5 wheels. The new plan is to not make a 1.4.4 release and
instead drop 3.5 support and make a 1.5.0 release

Co-authored-by: hauntsaninja <>

README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ parser similar to the standard `ast` library.  Unlike `ast`, the parsers in
 comments and are independent of the version of Python under which they are run.
 The `typed_ast` parsers produce the standard Python AST (plus type comments),
 and are both fast and correct, as they are based on the CPython 2.7 and 3.7
-parsers.  `typed_ast` runs on CPython 3.5-3.8 on Linux, OS X and Windows.
+parsers.  `typed_ast` runs on CPython 3.6-3.10 on Linux, OS X and Windows.
 
 ## Development Philosophy
 

setup.py

@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@
            'Intended Audience :: Developers',
            'Operating System :: POSIX',
            'Operating System :: Microsoft',
-           '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',
            'Topic :: Software Development',
        ],
+       python_requires=">=3.6",
        packages = ['typed_ast', 'typed_ast.tests'],
        package_dir={ 'typed_ast.tests': 'ast3/tests' },
        ext_package='typed_ast',

typed_ast/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.4.4"
+__version__ = "1.5.0.dev0"