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Python is FOSS. If there was a big enough market for python 2 it would have been forked and maintained by a separate entity. That it didn't happen proves this

• heavyset_go 6y ago
  There are entities out there with support contracts that stipulate Python 2 support for a while. Red Hat is one such entity[1]. [1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
• deleted 6y ago
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• atoav 6y ago
  I guess there isn't really a propper need for a perpetuation of python27. This is mostly people who don't really see a difference between the versions other than that their print statements suddenly fail or that unmaintained dependency they used in that code half a decade ago complains. Who cares about the security pitfalls involved with using outdated python when tour code doesn't work? Of course python could have dealt better with backwards compatibility, but the python code I wrote was transfered to version 3 pretty quickly.
• stock_toaster 6y ago
  > If there was a big enough market for python 2 it would have been forked and maintained by a separate entity. Perhaps some chose instead move to other languages.
• Jasper_ 6y ago
  It happened multiple times, and one of the times, the project needed to be renamed, causing a huge argument, lots of eyes on the project, and momentum to slow. There's a huge social cost to a fork. https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47 https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47