It's still alive where I am. Our eight hundred pound gorilla of its industry depends on another, lower eight hundred pound gorilla in a different industry, to

It's still alive where I am. Our eight hundred pound gorilla of its industry depends on another, lower eight hundred pound gorilla in a different industry, to the point of tying the version we are on (and one that is only rarely, carefully changed), to a X.Y.Z version of the gorilla below. Upper gorilla upgrades are expensive, frightful, and slow to come due to the cautiousness of the industry. That second, lower gorilla comes with its own 2.Y.Z version of Python installed and a help page in a large, bold font explicitly forbidding upgrading that Python 2.Y.Z version, lest some dire things happen. And so in my little niche of the world, Python 2 Is Alive. I am not holding on out of stubbornness. As I learned in a previous job, software lives for a lot longer than expected or even desired, like some declared extinct species popping up decades later.