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I am getting really tired of this "if Python3 is to live then Python2 must die" stuff... Perhaps Debian should avoid the war entirely and switch to another scr

I am getting really tired of this "if Python3 is to live then Python2 must die" stuff... Perhaps Debian should avoid the war entirely and switch to another scripting language.

Karunamon 12y ago
Python2 is a ticking time bomb - it's officialy EOL'ed in 2020, all new development is happening on 3.x It's like the jump between Ruby 1.8 and 2.0 - there is no reason to be doing anything in 1.8 in 2015.
- Yuioup 12y ago
  I predict that Python 2 will be forked by a drop-in replacement by 2020.
  - lmm 12y ago
    I'll bet you $50 that no non-maintenance fork of python2 will be shipped by default in any of the top 5 linux distributions before 2020.
    - BuckRogers 12y ago
      Only because the core dev team is making it their priority to move distros over to 3. It won't make any difference, the strength of Python is in the library support, not the distro support. 2.x support by libraries will last a very long time, nothing worth its salt will be dropping it. By the time they do, Python3 and wherever it is by that point will be unrecognizable to the original release of Python 3.0.