On 4/5/2014 6:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Oh, I dare say that when the core developers finally announce Python 2.7 is end-of-lifed, probably in another five or so years,
Bug fixing will end in May/June 2015 with 2.7.8, maybe 2.7.9. It will probably start tapering off before that on the basis that fixes may break working code that has worked around bugs. I am not sure how long I will backport Idle patches.
Code-only security patches after that? Undecided. I think PEP 466 defines what the focus will be -- keeping 2.7 web apps from becoming bad internet citizens.
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