You Don't Have to Migrate to Python 3

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Actually, you do. Even if CPython is supposed for another 5 years by the likes of Red Hat, the whole ecosystem around it is moving on and you may find your 3rd-party dependencies are no longer maintained for Python 2.

Read the article, which covers the over and unders quite well.

For those of us with long memories, it's not that different from the great migration from Perl to Python (i.e., Python2). Although Python2 and Python3 are more similar, they are definitely two different languages, and porting a project to a new language should not be undertaken without due consideration.

I've read the article. Maybe the author shouldn't have used a click-batey title.

Personally, I don't want to keep installing an outdated run time to keep older software running on target machines.

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