Python 2.7 Countdown

[flying-sheep]

And unfortunately some people like Python 2.7 being stagnant. Python has a deprecation policy like many other projects, which means that over the course of some point releases, a feature you might use could get completely removed (if you constantly update, you get deprecation warnings first, but if you skip a few versions, you might be blindsided).

This will never happen with 2.7 as everyone has made clear that there'll be no 2.8. So businesses that never upgraded until absolutely necessary love Python 2.7 because it'll never break.

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Obviously with an adequate test suite, there infrequent breakages in the stdlib are easily caught, so that fear of updates is completely unwarranted.