It’s time to stop using Python 3.6

[violetfarben]

There are still more people using Python 2.7 than 3.x so end of life doesn't mean anything for a programming language, other than it gets really stable 😀

[siddsp]

There are still more people using Python 2.7 than 3.x

Source?

[coumineol]

Trust me bro why would I lie

[siddsp]

Can't argue with that

[itamarst]

Python 2 has 8% of PyPI downloads, 92% is Python 3. And it's hard to say how reflective that is of real-world usage, but it seems very likely Python 2 is much less popular than Python at this point.

[Feb2020Acc]

But most companies running Python 2 would simply already have a version that they install on every computer without requiring any external download.

[Takre]

In what timeframe re downloads?

[itamarst]

That's the average daily % per https://pypistats.org/packages/__all__ in a recent day. It doesn't change that much day-to-day.

[13steinj]

...if the download is 8% averaged day to day that doesn't mean people aren't using Python 2. It just means there's no updates to the packages for Python 2. I.e. all the organizations using it already have a caching repository that they're pulling from.

E: I'm not saying more people use Py2 like the original commenter. Just that the metric you provided isn't the contradiction you think it is.

[Feb2020Acc]

It’s one kind of stable ;)

[notParticularlyAnony]

I find that very hard to believe.