> > Timing for the true switchover (i.e. no more Py2 in Sage cell)?  I would 
> recommend it were over the Northern hemisphere summer.  Probably June 1 is 
> a good date - I'd say 2020, but I know others are itching for earlier. 
>
> Python 2 is officially "end of lifed" far before June 2020: 
> https://pythonclock.org/ 
>

Hmm.  I wonder if Sage will be fully Py3 ready by no later than July this 
summer?  But that is not for this discussion forum. 

 

> > William, would Sage pre-Py3 kernels be available on CoCalc for a while 
> perhaps after a Sage switch?  Just curious.  Could be a useful use of an 
> email blast to all your customers ... 
>
> Yes.  I think we will still have a few sage-8.x versions for a long 
> time, but with no updates.    Right now, we have 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 
> 8.6, etc., and it's not hard to just keep older versions around.  It's 
> only hard when we upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to whatever big version 
> we upgrade to next and have to rebuild everything.   Even then, we can 
> keep older 18.04-based images for a while... 
>
>
Good to know. 

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