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Considering how much opposition there is in moving to python3, has there been any significant effort in the community keeping python2 alive?


Most of what opposition there is comes from people with projects which are some combination of under-staffed, poorly tested, or with a marginal approach to scheduling necessary maintenance work. That is not a great place to expect to find reliable maintenance contributions.

Where you are more likely to find this is from the major Linux vendors: e.g. Red Hat is committed to support it through 2024 and I would expect that they won't be alone in offering paid support for remaining users.


I'm actually (pleasantly) surprised that someone like Google (or a league of someones like Google) who have deep pockets and so much Python 2 that it's cheaper to maintain Python 2 than it is to port to Python 3. Perhaps they (correctly) were concerned about the ecosystem moving on toward Python 3, leaving them behind?




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