Just FYI to all the people who don't prioritize moving our code to Python3:

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>
> Subject: 2.7 EOL = 2020 January 1
> Date: March 13, 2018 at 9:58:42 AM CDT
> To: python-l...@python.org
> 
> On March 10, on thread "Python 2.7 -- bugfix or security before EOL?", Guido 
> van Russum wrote
> 
> "The way I see the situation for 2.7 is that EOL is January 1st, 2020, and 
> there will be no updates, not even source-only security patches, after that 
> date. Support (from the core devs, the PSF, and python.org) stops completely 
> on that date. If you want support for 2.7 beyond that day you will have to 
> pay a commercial vendor. Of course it's open source so people are also 
> welcome to fork it. But the core devs have toiled long enough, and the 2020 
> EOL date (an extension from the originally annouced 2015 EOL!) was announced 
> with sufficient lead time and fanfare that I don't feel bad about stopping to 
> support it at all."
> 
> Two days later, Benjamin Peterson, the 2.7 release manager, replied "Sounds 
> good to me. I've updated the PEP to say 2.7 is completely dead on Jan 1 
> 2020." adding "The final release may not literally be on January 1st".
> 
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ now says
> "2.7 will receive bugfix support until January 1, 2020."
> 
> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy
> 
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> 


-- Ed Leafe





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