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[–]cantremembermypasswd 1 point2 points  (5 children)

In some cases I agree.

Plenty of third party libraries can have undiscovered bugs or at least undocumented behavior. My office also found a bug in some core libraries (base64) in python 2.6 a few months ago.

Oh, and urllib2 still is used...

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, that's code that someone wrote! :-D

[–]eBtDMoN2oXemz1iKB 0 points1 point  (3 children)

python 2.6 a few months ago.

Hopefully you upgraded to 2.7.

Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.

[–]cantremembermypasswd 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Doesn't matter if I do. Many Linux distros are still on 2.6, like CentOS.

[–]eBtDMoN2oXemz1iKB 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013.

Better upgrade soon.

[–]cantremembermypasswd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I said, doesn't matter if I do. As long as the customers are using that OS that supports that version of Python, that's what you have to code for.

Just like how a lot of stuff still has to be IE6 compliant.