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Expand Up @@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ The following platforms are supported:

| Platform | Support |
|----------|--------------------------|
| Python | Python 3.7+ through 3.14 |
| Python | Python 3.8+ through 3.14 |

> [!NOTE]
> This SDK works across all major operating platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows) as long as Python 3.7+ is available.
> This SDK works across all major operating platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows) as long as Python 3.8+ is available.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the Python 3.7 classifier.

The README now states that Python 3.8+ is supported, but pyproject.toml still advertises Python 3.7 through its classifier. Remove that classifier to align the public support metadata. Keep requires-python = ">=3.7" if installation on Python 3.7 remains intentional.

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Review comment at @README.md around lines 36 - 39:
Remove the Python 3.7 classifier from the project classifiers in pyproject.toml
so the published support metadata matches the README’s Python 3.8+ claim. Leave
requires-python unchanged.

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> [!IMPORTANT]
> SDK versions < 2.0.0 are [deprecated](https://ably.com/docs/platform/deprecate/protocol-v1).
Expand All @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ pip install ably
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> [!NOTE]
Install [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/) version 3.8 or greater.
> Install [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/) version 3.8 or greater.

## Usage

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -94,7 +94,20 @@ Read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines to contribute to Ably.

For help or technical support, visit Ably's [support page](https://ably.com/support) or [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/ably/ably-pubsub-python/issues) for community-reported bugs and discussions.

### Full Realtime support unavailable
### Feature support

This SDK currently supports only [Ably REST](https://ably.com/docs/rest) and basic realtime message subscriptions. To access full [Ably Realtime](https://ably.com/docs/realtime) features in Python, consider using the [MQTT adapter](https://ably.com/docs/mqtt).
This SDK supports the Ably Pub/Sub REST and Realtime APIs, including connection and channel lifecycle management, publishing and subscribing, presence, message history, message annotations, channel encryption, and token authentication with in-band re-authentication.

The following features are not currently implemented:

- [Connection recovery](https://ably.com/docs/connect/states) using the `recover` client option.
- Message filtering on subscriptions, and derived channels.
- Presence history, though [channel history](https://ably.com/docs/storage-history/history) is supported.
- [Batch publish](https://ably.com/docs/messages/batch) and batch presence.
- [Token revocation](https://ably.com/docs/auth/revocation).
- [Push notification target](https://ably.com/docs/push) functionality, so a Python client cannot itself receive push notifications. The [push admin API](https://ably.com/docs/api/rest-sdk/push-admin) for registering and managing other devices is supported.
- [LiveObjects](https://ably.com/docs/liveobjects).

> [!NOTE]
> [Delta compression](https://ably.com/docs/channels/options/deltas) requires the `vcdiff` extra (`pip install "ably[vcdiff]"`) and an `AblyVCDiffDecoder` instance passed to the client as `vcdiff_decoder`.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document Realtime presence history as supported.

Presence.history() is exposed through the Realtime presence API. The current README incorrectly states that presence history is unsupported, which can prevent users from using this implemented feature. Clarify that only the distinction from channel history is relevant.

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Update the Feature support section to document Realtime Presence.history() as
supported, removing it from the unsupported features list while preserving the
distinction that channel history is also supported.

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