Here's a one-slide deck: Python 2 is End of Life in 2020. No improvements, no bug/security fixes. It will be a dead parrot. http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pe

Here's a one-slide deck: Python 2 is End of Life in 2020. No improvements, no bug/security fixes. It will be a dead parrot. http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ So it depends on how long you want python to be a factor in your shop, and how long you want to be able to recruit python programmers willing to work there. It shouldn't be surprising to find a python 2 shop, even if their python focus started within recent years. The people who started it have a good chance of having used python 2 for a long time.