Anybody still using Python2?

Hal Murray halmurray at sonic.net
Wed Jan 29 04:05:11 UTC 2025


Gary said:
> And yet, we still get complaints.  There are maintained Python 2.7 forks
> that some distros still use and update.

I've seen at least one distro that had python 3 but python still went to 
python 2.  I assume they had a lot of code that still needed python 2.

For setups like that, we should be able tell our code to use python 3.

I have a couple boxes running old distros, partly for things like this.  
They all have python 3.  I may have hacked python to be python 3 rather 
than python 2.  But our code builds and works.


Another possibility would be to ship a release that still supports 2.6, 
but with a big warning.  Then we can ship another release quickly after 
that which drops support for python 2.


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