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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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