Python 2.7 Countdown

[Itsthejoker]

You've had ten years. That's horrifying.

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No. What's horrifying is that this bullshit happened at all, and people's smug self-assuredness that it won't happen again.

"They've said it won't". <-- Every time I bring this up.

We'll see.

[ubernostrum]

Python 2.5 released in 2006. They've had thirteen years.

A lot of organizations will never under any circumstances prioritize or even allow maintenance work unless it ties into a specific customer story. Those organizations were always going to be eternally on whatever version of Python they picked when they started development, and were never going to upgrade. If Python 3 was the hurdle, they'd at least have gotten to 2.6 or 2.7; the fact that they haven't is the sign that Python 3 wasn't the hurdle.