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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by dfee on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:28AM (#16582567)
If you don’t continue to hold out, who will? And, if you move on, are we losing access to living history?
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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by oliwarner on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:01AM (#16583102)
Let's maintain every version of everything ever made, forever. Won't somebody please think of the children!

But if that wasn't sarcasm, nobody's removing "access" to this historical artefact. Python 2's source code is available as long as somebody stores it. But the resources required to keep it secure are needed elsewhere. If you simply want to preserve it, talk to an archivist. The Python community has moved on.

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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by dfee on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:28AM (#16584965)
It was sarcasm!
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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by mattbillenstein on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:58PM (#16589707)
Please use <sarcasm>Something sarcastic</sarcasm> as appropriate ;)
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Re:Guido van Rossum: Python 2 end-of-life will be on January... by mattbillenstein on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:33AM (#16582794)
What do you mean?

Python2 history I see as preserved in the cpython repo, mailing lists, etc. Python3 has enough improvements in the CPython VM to warrant upgrading at this point.

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