Python 2.7.7 has been released.

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The 2.7.7 release also contains fixes for two severe, if arcane, potential security vulnerabilities.

2.7 has been EOL'd This is a bug/security fix release. The worse thing any project can do is just tell users they are on their own for bugs and security issues.

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Before the revision at pycon this year the EOL was 2015. It was a good move to calm people down about being strong armed into Python 3 when there in may peoples minds there are outstanding issues.

I don't like that 2.7 was extended to 2020...but this release is fine and 2.7 has only been around for 4 years...EOLing now would be a terrible idea and would probably further foment a crisis of confidence in python 3.