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Re:Moving Away from Python 2 by ericfrederich on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:44PM (#11740410)
It should be noted that the quantity of Python 2 code keeps on growing

According to this article Python2 support is shrinking.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/0...

Re:Moving Away from Python 2 by SiVal on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:22PM (#11741163)
Both claims are correct, as is common with statistics.

If you write `print "hello"`, you just increased the QUANTITY OF PYTHON 2 CODE. If there is one guy left in the world who occasionally writes some Python 2--and even if he's the only one left who does--the quantity of Python 2 code will, in some sense, "keep on growing", regardless of what happens to Python 3.

The article you cite refers to PERCENTAGE OF LIBRARIES that support Python 2 or 3, either one or the other exclusively or both, and it demonstrates a decrease in libraries that only support Python 2 and an increase in libraries that only support Python 3. This is presumably correct, too, but it doesn't suggest that nobody writes any Python 2 code anymore.