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A comment on Python 2.7 Countdown.

Re:Python 2.7 Countdown by Radim on Sunday January 07, 2018 @10:59AM (#16091251)
"…hereby suggesting we throw a massive party to celebrate all that Python 2 has done…"

Perhaps it's that ominous counter, but these words really evoked Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" for some reason.

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Re:Python 2.7 Countdown by eesmith on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:42PM (#16091713)
I think of it more like a wake.

In "The Masque of the Red Death" they shut themselves away from the rest of the world. There's no correspondence from that to the end of core developer supported Python 2.

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