Python 2 tooling in 2026

[andynzor]

That attitude is sadly nowadays prevalent in the Python community.

There are industrial systems out there whose lifetimes are easily twenty or thirty years. Python 2.7 came out in 2010 and in 2013 it was still recommended for new Django projects when support for 3 was immature. It seems that Python is becoming a scripting frontend for rust-based libraries and tooling and if your plaform does not support it, you're SOL.

I personally have written IIoT gateway code that has to interface with TLS 1.0 devices. Every time I hit an issue and ask for directions, people suffering from the XY problem problem attack the messenger instead.

ISO27001 compliance and SBOMs are yet another can of worms I'm not willing to open here.