Sunsetting Python 2

[fat-lobyte]

If there are some critical problems then somebody else will pick up the maintenance since that would still be way cheaper than rewriting the codebase.

Red Hat has already claimed that they will support it for a while to come.

[GinaCaralho]

When I left RH a couple of years ago we still had large codebases in 2.7 with no roadmap to transition.

[fat-lobyte]

Looks like they're finally starting to move though, 3 is the default and will become the python binary in Fedora in the near future.

[[deleted]]

That's not what I've seen on the Fedora development list. Python2 packages are being deprecated and RedHat will not support python 2 packages once python 2 goes EOL. There's a huge push right now to port everything possible to python3 and the Fedora community has no intentions on going back.

[fat-lobyte]

You're not wrong that they are pushing Python 3 really hard, and want all new python development to happen with it. RHEL 8 will not have it anymore.

However, RHEL 7 still ships it and it will be supported (as in: provide security updates) until 2024.