Re: Is python2 dead?

[James Browning via devel]

On Sep 4, 2023 14:46, Matthew Selsky via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 02:25:46PM -0700, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:

> From RHEL:
>
> "The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's
> Python 2.7 package at June 2024."
>
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511

Hi Gary,

Is the implication that we can safely drop python2 support after June 2024?  Are there any other distributions that ship python2 that we want to maintain support for?

How much does it cost us to maintain python2 support in our own code?

By dropping 2.6 support we would eliminate the need to check for argparse in a few place, glue to replace ordereddict?, be able to use with for resource allocatoion, and the need to pretend to test on 2.6. 

By dropping 2.7 we could probably assume secrets which simplifies ntpkeygen, simplify ntp.poly, be able to drop the now oldoldstable? runner testing for asciidoc on python 2 support, and also have the option of adding type hinting.

I am probably missing a whole bunch of stuff though.

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