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"And if any of that is not enough, well, Anaconda Continuum will be happy to do business with you." Yes, this is a key point that seems to be forgotten. The Py
by sjellis 9y ago
"And if any of that is not enough, well, Anaconda Continuum will be happy to do business with you."
Yes, this is a key point that seems to be forgotten. The Python development team will end their support on 1st January 2020, but there are other providers with Python expertise who will almost certainly pick up the commercial opportunity, e.g. ActiveState, and possibly even Red Hat with a separate product.
This is not the end of Python 2, it's going to be a transition to a different support model. Commercial users either pay to move up, pay to rewrite the Python code with something else, or pay for a super long-life version of Python 2.
The awkward part may be academic research, where there's a probably a lot of Python 2 code that has no maintenance budget. I would not be surprised if a project appears to build no-support versions of Python 2 with essential fixes after 2020.