Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-01-11, Gunnar Þór Magnússon wrote: >> I thought that upgrading is not that simple. > If you have Python 2 code that deals with a lot of text in byte > form, and it's kind of vague where you convert from bytes to > strings, you may have a bad time. > > Otherwise, it may not be that bad. I

Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-12 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/11/2020 7:22 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote: Though in a shock announcement a few weeks ago the end of Python 2 was delayed AGAIN (this time only by a few months, but still) https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-2-sunset.html Not really. The only thing delayed was the final release,2.7

Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 4:50 AM Gunnar Þór Magnússon wrote: > > > I thought that upgrading is not that simple. > > It depends. > > If you have Python 2 code that deals with a lot of text in byte form, and > it's kind of vague where you convert from bytes to strings, you may have a > bad time. >

Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-11 Thread Gunnar Þór Magnússon
> I thought that upgrading is not that simple. It depends. If you have Python 2 code that deals with a lot of text in byte form, and it's kind of vague where you convert from bytes to strings, you may have a bad time. Otherwise, it may not be that bad. I ported around 500k lines of Python 2 to

Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-11 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 11/01/2020 00:16, tommy yama wrote: As many know, python 2 was retired. 🐍 This means imminent migration to 3 will be a must ? Upgrading to Python 3 has been a "bloody well should" for many, many years now. Though in a shock announcement a few weeks ago the end of Python 2 was delayed AG

Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-11 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
tommy yama : > As many know, python 2 was retired. 🐍 > This means imminent migration to 3 will be a must ? Python 2 will have a lively retirement. It won't be dead before RHEL 7 is dead. According to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata the support dates for RHEL 7 are:

Re: Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
> > As many know, python 2 was retired. 🐍 > This means imminent migration to 3 will be a must ? > Not if you don't change anything (update software or hardware). If it ain't broke, there's no need to fix it. OTOH, if your software, Python itself, or your operating system have security or other bug

Saying bye bye to Python 2

2020-01-10 Thread tommy yama
As many know, python 2 was retired. 🐍 This means imminent migration to 3 will be a must ? I thought that upgrading is not that simple. thanks ! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list