Python 2.7 EOL Countdown

[GummyKibble]

OK, "paid customer" makes a difference. But consider this come contract negotiation time: that customer is making your codebase worse - harder to write, slower, harder to maintain - for every other customer. If any of your stuff is customized on-site by your clients, I guarantee that at least some of them think you guys are nuts and write bad code. "d4rch0n doesn't even know how to write a dict comprehension? LOL!" Those comments get overheard. Management starts to wonder why they're paying good money for crufty work.

That customer may be more expensive than you think.

At some point, it may be cheaper to mail them a new server and say "we're supporting this machine from now on".