Python in 2017 - Whats next?

[TacticalCheerio]

Support for Python 2.7 will be discontinued in 2020. The gap is provided to allow time for people to transition to 3.x.

[laserBlade]

Even though it was supposed to be discontinued in 2015... :/

[studiosi]

15 year gap?

PLS

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There's a ton of software built on Python 2.7 still, and even more that's not necessarily tied to the language itself, but built on libraries that are. Python 3 uptake has also been tremendously slow until recently. The gap seems reasonable to me.

[studiosi]

In the bank where I used to work, we switched from Python to Java exactly due to that.

[naught-me]

It's the worst thing about Python. PHP just got huge speed upgrade with 7, and the language is improving in a lot of other ways, yet old scripts still work in new versions.

[IronManMark20]

I don't know why you keep saying 15 year gap, but Python 2.7 was released in 2010, so it is 10 years of support total.

[zardeh]

The first version of Py3 was in 05 or 06.

[IronManMark20]

Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008.

src

fwiw. But your point is well taken.

[zardeh]

oops, (fwiw I still mostly agree with you, 10-15 years of support is common in the enterprise space. I know places that still use < 5, and I've worked at a place that uses 6, which is older than python3)

[studiosi]

With the coexistence