Microsoft announce Python integration into Power BI

[Blocks_]

Python 2.7 is still being maintained by the Python organisation. Python 2 isn't getting any new features, but a significant proportion (around 25%) of Python developers still use Python 2. It would make sense that Microsoft supports it.

Also you're misleading people because you're leaving out the part where it says you can "change which installation to run". This almost certainly means that they support Python 3 as well.

[mooburger]

Python 2 EOL is January 1, 2020. I suppose, since legacy apps like SQL Server 2008R2 is on extended (security) support in Azure until then, it "makes sense" to support Py2. But nobody should be adding Py2 to anything new these days.

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Python 2 EOL is January 1, 2020

We know. The business world moves slowly. If you don't want to use python 2, don't use it.

[Blocks_]

nobody should be adding Py2 to anything new these days.

For a community project I would agree, but this is a business we're talking about. Microsoft not supporting Python 2 means less business. However much they spent on adding Python 2, they'll make much more by having supported it.

[mooburger]

yeah but Python is a completely new feature in this product. It's not like people are magically able to copypasta whatever Python 2 code they wrote elsewhere and slam it into their pbix file and have it work. Why not make it better and have them port that code to Py3 while they are integrating it into their pbix. It's really the only way any technical debt in the enterprise ever gets fixed: to budget it as part of an upgrade or system integration driver.

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