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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by Macha on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:21AM (#13539642)
The value proposition might be there if the alternative was a python 3 port, but if you're installing packages of pypi these days it's unlikely you're running python <2.6 and I'm not sure a Python 2.6 -> 2.7.9 upgrade is of comparable difficulty to adding TLS 1.2 support to python < 2.7.9.

I mean, I know there's some old versions of Red Hat and co knocking about with 2.4 but you're probably better off to use your system package manager for those these days.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by smarx007 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:29AM (#13539671)
In RHEL those old Python interpreters are available precisely via the system package manager. And they won't support you if you install Python from a 3rd party RPM as I understand.
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by srssays on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:46AM (#13539740)
And people pay money for that?
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by lmm on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:57AM (#13540001)
Yes. There are people who value support for a fixed version for 10 or more years much more than they'd value "rolling" support for a "latest" version that they have to keep updating their apps for.
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by srssays on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:58AM (#13542388)
But none of the packages they use will be up-to-date. e.g. Django dropped support for 2.6 years ago and will drop support for 2.7 soon.
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by ubernostrum on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:28AM (#13548789)
People who use RHEL this way do not keep any third-party packages up-to-date. If that means a decade on Django 1.2, well, they spend a decade on Django 1.2 -- Red Hat will backport security fixes into a Red-Hat-packaged Django 1.2.
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by bandrami on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:35AM (#13540197)
Absolutely. Even on the gratis side, Debian stable gets very, very cranky if you mix in anything new. Devs hate it; ops love it.
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