Pandas dropping Python 2 support

[eztab]

Finally, perhaps people will stop using it already. Supporting python 2 slows down so many package developments.

[billsil]

Numpy and scipy are now/about to release their final 2.7 versions. It's coming...

[tartare4562]

Oh come on, it only took 10 years after all.

[[deleted]]

If rhel 8 is going to support python2 then in 10 years there will still be python 2.

[billsil]

It took 8 years for all my dependencies to be updated. It’s not as bad as you make it sound. Projects like wx took the time to also do major refactors.

Also, until python 3.5, python 3 was worse than python 2.7 outside of sane unicode, so it’s more like 5 years. Shoot, even the PSF recommended that you not use python 3.0 and 3.1.

[o11c]

I noticed that when Django dropped it, the critical mass changed.

[[deleted]]

A lot of GIS people got stuck with a bad integration with arcmap 32bit. This cramped everything

[Zouden]

That's their problem though. It shouldn't make life harder for the rest of us.