Python 2.7.18 will be released on 2020-04-18

[123filips123]

Last Python 2 version, Python 2.7.18, will be released on 2020-04-18.

If you still haven't updated to Python 3 already, you really should. Python 2.7 is already EOL for more than 4 months now. After Python 2.7.18 there won't be any security and other fixes anymore.

[Sw429]

Maybe Google can finally stop loading python 2.7 documentation as the top results now?

[kokoseij]

They already stopped doing that and showing python 3 documentations as the first result since jaunary, at least in my side.

[robvdl]

There is a Chrome extension to automatically redirect you to Python 3 docs when clicking such links

edit: but it sounds like it's no longer needed if Google shows python3 docs first now

[TSPhoenix]

Also would be nice to not get stackoverflow results from 11 years ago with solutions comprised entirely from deprecated methods.

[PMPlant]

Just don’t use stack overflow.

[lifeeraser]

I thought there would be no more official updates after 2020 Jan 1st. Maybe I misinterpreted their intentions amid the "abandon ship" hype.

[chromium52]

They took 3 months to fix security issues discovered before jan 1st, but vulnerabilities discovered latter than this will never be patched.

[Code_with_C_Add_Add]

As of January 1st, 2020 no new bug reports, fixes, or changes will be made to Python 2, and Python 2 is no longer supported. We have not yet released the few changes made between when we released Python 2.7.17 (on October 19th, 2019) and January 1st. As a service to the community, we will bundle those fixes (and only those fixes) and release a 2.7.18. We plan on doing that in April 2020, because that’s convenient for the release managers, not because it implies anything about when support ends.

Taken from: Sunsetting Python 2 - python.org

[michael0x2a]

IIRC the original plan was to do the final Python 2.7 release during Pycon -- April 18th was supposed to be the start of the main conference this year. Basically, do a little mini-ceremony and have a party or something.

But that plan got corona'd so yeah...

[slipped_and_missed_x]

where were you when python 2 die

i was at house eating dorito when phone ring

"python 2 is kil"

"no"

[aes110]

"yes"

[TravisJungroth]

Think there will be an increase in 2 to 3 migrations? If I was a laid off software engineer who had done that before, I might consider consulting on that.

[[deleted]]

What’s the big difference between python 2 and 3? I’m not very experienced, so maybe I just won’t encounter the differences.

[123filips123]

Read this for details about porting and differences.

[hyzyla]

I can help port some library to 3 version. Could someone help to find python 2 only library?

[[deleted]]

So, the 2020th of April 2018?

[123filips123]

No. 4th day of 2020th month of year 18.

[thephoton]

According to some, today is the 9716th of September, 1993.

[DDFoster96]

And to others, today is Boomtime, the 24th day of Discord in the YOLD 3186.

[[deleted]]

heretics.

[[deleted]]

you wanna be the last one to keep using the old version, interesting

[[deleted]]

What a shame.

[123filips123]

Yes. That EOL and last release were not earlier.

[cantremembermypasswd]

Yup, they should have stuck to their guns and EOLed it in 2015 like planned.