The Python 2.x EOL was extended to 2020.

Which, I believe, is also the support timeline for the Django 1.x LTS release before 2.0. So Django plans to support Python 2.x as long as the PSF does.

Yeah thats 3 years for now... thats very little time - especially if you have to migrate old projects.

The same argument could be made for any arbitrary amount of time though.

1 week is not enough

1 month is not enough

1 year is not enough

5 years is not enough

10 years is not enough

20 years is not enough...

Do you really have Python projects that can't be migrated in 3 years?

At some point the line has to be drawn to move everyone forward. Extending the EOL for the last long-term of 2.7.x by 5 additional years is pretty generous.

https://pythonclock.org/

I think you completly misunderstood my comment ;-) And yes 3 years for some projects with small teams is barely enough :)

I suspect Python 2.x will be extended like copyright.

I doubt it and that argument makes no sense. Copyright is extended thanks to the lobbying effort of huge business like Disney in order to make a ton more money.

Unless you see some big corporate support contracts coming over the horizon for PSF, not to mention they'd have to be worth the money vs the technical debt, I don't think Py2 support will get extended.

Backlash from the tons of big companies still using it will become lobbying to keep it supported. I don't expect them to stop in the next couple years, or the next few, etc.

There's less muscle behind keeping Python 2, but there's a lot less muscle needed to keep it going than to extend copyright.