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I just verified. You can install Python 2.7 on an up to date Windows install as well as an up to date Linux install. Python 2.7 hasn't received security updates (or really any updates) in years, but that does not mean it can't still work on an up to date OS.

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The latest 2.7 seems to have a lot of CVEs (did not verify that manually though)

https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/10210/18230/10/Pytho...

IIRC some commercial distros maintain patches for 2.7 but then you're paying for being 15 years behind the future.

Yeah, it's been 5 years (almost 6) since python 2.7 stopped receiving security updates, but it does still run on modern OS's.

Looking at the list, I'm actually kind of surprised there aren't more CVEs for python 2.7, but if you're only running it locally or on an intranet I could see letting it ride.

There are variants of Python 2.7 that are supported

2.7 gave me problems last time I tried to install it from source on redhat. Something about ssl incompatibility.

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