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There are 5 CVEs for 2.7 so far in 2019 [1]. [1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10210/product_id-18230/version_id-92056/year-2019/Pyt

• mjw1007 7y ago
  Yes, I think whoever ends up taking over Python 2 maintenance would be well advised to stub out the https support immediately, and maybe a bit later do the same for all support for network requests. In particular, you don't want to have to worry about building against openssl. I think the vast majority of cases where people have a good reason to carry on using Python 2 won't need that.