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Python 2.7 will retire in...

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It was moved to April: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-2-sunset.html

https://www.python.org/psf/press-release/pr20191220/

It seems it wasn't moved; the intention wasn't to make the final release on New Year's, but to have the release occur around PyCon. Rather it seems what they meant was that they'd stop fixing issues (except critical ones/blockers) past new year's.

Accidently realised I had a lot of code that still worked under 2.7 when I provided the wrong interpreter path. The tests passed with only a few failing.

I doubt I'll ever update them to run under 2.7. Ironically I still support some scripts under 1.x for a bunch of industrial systems that aren't networked. It will be nice when July comes along and they all vanish and replaced with the 3.x goodness.

Python 2.7 will be forked in...

As I recall the developer of the Calibre e-book application wanted to do this, but has come to his senses.

If there's legitimate need and enough support, it will be. But I haven't seen any company announcing their fork and services so far. It may not happen on a larger scale.

Red Hat will continue to support Python 2 until 2024: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511

But Python is not GPL or similarly restrictively licensed, so RH is not obliged to publish the changed code they produce for their paying customers. Whether they will do e. g. via CentOS I have not investigated.

to be fair, all the CVEs I see in the last few years are related to urllib (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1021...) - there are tons and tons of applications which aren't even using any kind of network communications, does it matter for them that Python gets updated ?

Ah, yes. I meant a different model. RH does support as in backporting required patches and generally making things not stop.

What I thought was implied by a fork was more of a consultancy / paid support like https://railslts.com/

> Python 2.7 will be forked in...

It already was: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/

... And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

for auld lang(uage) syne.

Yawn. I'm still waiting for COBOL to retire.

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