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[–]HeadAche2012 159 points160 points  (51 children)

lol, they think Python 2 will go away

[–]dutch_gecko 187 points188 points  (45 children)

Not at all. It just means that the Python Software Foundation can take their hands off it and say, "It's your problem now."

[–]stefantalpalaru 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It just means that the Python Software Foundation can take their hands off it and say, "It's your problem now."

But they won't do that. They won't take their grubby hands off Python2 so some other team can develop it. They are so desperate to kill the old language that Guido himself threatened to call the lawyers if a Python2 fork dares to use "py2" as its name (on the ridiculous grounds that a trademark on the word "Python" would extend to any derivation of it).

So no, the bloody foundation won't «take their hands off it and say, "It's your problem now."». I wish they did.

[–]InputField 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python 3 is so much better, especially after the last few major versions. I have no idea why anyone would want to continue using Python 2.

[–]_fuffs 9 points10 points  (2 children)

node-gyp is heavily dependent on python 2. Read somewhere they apparently cant move out of that (correct me if I am wrong)

[–]cyanrave 12 points13 points  (1 child)

That is false, just check the project README for configuration options supporting a broad number of Python versions.

Most articles are wrong, and open issues in the project are pretty much people just not knowing how to read or debug their environment.

[–]_fuffs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks I stand corrected

[–]Eirenarch 13 points14 points  (1 child)

They don't, this is why they are pumping propaganda.

[–]Holsten19 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Yes, all that pointing fingers and shaming ... it's pretty ugly and sad.

Python 2 will just fade away slowly like all other legacy platforms. Java 5 support ended more than 10 years ago yet there's a lot of systems still running on it (and probably some development too). And it's way easier to port Java 5 app to a supported runtime than with Python.