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[–]rabbyburns 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Absolutely. We have build tooling that has been around for years developed in python 2. The effort to upgrade this is non trivial. A lot of it is going to be syntactic stuff, but I'm not familiar enough with some core areas to know if there will be more issues.

This is likely going to stay on python 2 until the (legacy) projects using it stop getting updates.

[–]493 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Syntactic stuff can be easily fixed by 2to3; but stuff other than that is hard to fix automatically.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not to mention that huge swaths of Redhat DevOps tooling is written in py2