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I've some good luck migrating a couple of things to `pypy`, specifically "Squeaky's portable Linux binaries." [0] "How long will PyPy support Python2? -- Since

I've some good luck migrating a couple of things to `pypy`, specifically "Squeaky's portable Linux binaries." [0] "How long will PyPy support Python2? -- Since RPython is built on top of Python2 and that is extremely unlikely to change, the Python2 version of PyPy will be around “forever”, i.e. as long as PyPy itself is around." [1] [0] https://github.com/squeaky-pl/portable-pypy#portable-pypy-distribution-for-linux https://github.com/squeaky-pl/portable-pypy#portable-pypy-di... [1] http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-support-python2 http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-su...

geofft 7y ago
I mean, it's not like CPython 2 is going to disappear on January 1, either. You can keep using it. What you lose is a) potential security fixes (you might not care, for your use case) and b) the ability to use other libraries that are Python 3 only, including security updates to libraries whose Python 2 versions are no longer maintained. Using PyPy (or any other Python 2 implementation) definitely doesn't get you b and arguably isn't much improvement on a.