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Python 2 removed from homebrew.

Python 2.7 is not getting any security/crypto updates backported. Eventually PyPI's SSL configuration will change to a point where Python 2.7 won't handle it and then that's it. Game over, no more pip for you, even if you froze on < 21.0.

There are Linux distros out there in LTS until late into this decade that shipped with Python 2.7. Ubuntu 18 comes to mind, which EOLs in 2028. They've got a real hard problem to solve.

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Oh, you mean other people maintaining Python 2 for you is being taken away.

You can maintain Python 2 yourself just fine, though, if you like.

heh

You can even still get someone else to maintain it for you! Just not the Python Software Foundation. If it's an important piece of your business it may make sense to have a support contract in place regardless.

Python 2.7 is not getting any security/crypto updates backported.

There are several projects out there that are supporting python 2.7 with security updates. Tauthon is probably the biggest one.

Thank you. Yes it is good to see some projects stepping up the fill the gaps. I only wonder as time goes on how well socialized these will be...and if people who suddenly find themselves in the position of maintaining an old Python code base will be able to find out what to do.

Tauthon is kind of interesting because in addition to guaranteeing compatibility with the latest official 2.7 release they are also trying to back-port as many python 3 feature as makes sense without breaking the backwards comparability.

How does that "actively take away from people the option to maintain Python 2 indefinitely"?

It appears to only take away from people the option to use the unmaintained Python 2.

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