Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January 1st, 2020

Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by nineteen999 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @06:55PM (#16580611)

I note RHEL 7.x still contains Python 2 as the default, with Python 3 available from EPEL. But you can't remove Python 2 since just about everything in the system (including the package manager) depends on the Python 2.

RHEL7 is not due to be EOL until 2024, so Redhat (and others) will be holding the baby for a long time after 2020.

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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by jlgaddis on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:37PM (#16580886)

The end of "full support" for RHEL 7 is "~Q4 of 2019".

After that, there's "Maintenance Support" until 30 Jun 2024 but that only includes "errata", which are "provided at Red Hat's discretion" -- and specifically excludes "Software Enhancements" ("additions of new functionality beyond correcting defects ...").

I expect that after Python 2's EOL, we'll see very little in the way of updates for RHEL 7's Python 2 packages. There just won't be that much for them to do.

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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by nineteen999 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @08:56PM (#16581363)

It's referred to as Extended Update Support (EUS). Of course nobody is expecting any enhancements beyond 2019 but for long-lived critical infrastructure projects (eg. mine) any critical security fixes will be required - for my project in particular at least until 2022.

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