In my experience in the business world, it is far too common to find a company’s critical infrastructure running on stuff more messy than this particular 6000-l

In my experience in the business world, it is far too common to find a company’s critical infrastructure running on stuff more messy than this particular 6000-line monstrosity (which, for the record, I am not the original author of, and, yes, I have added a few test cases for code I have added to it like my own RNG). I once was getting paid double my previous salary to maintain Visual Basic code which makes this 6000-line script look like well structured fully tested object oriented code. When my boss came in to the room and said the project was cancelled, I let out a sigh of relief that I would never have to look at that code again. In terms of Python2, it will be maintained until at least 2024 because it’s part of CentOS/RHEL 7. I think it will be maintained until 2029 because I saw that package in CentOS 8, but I do not recall if it’s a core package with a guaranteed 2029 EOL.