Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by SlowBro on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:18AM (#16810325)

2.X would still be included as an optional package, correct? I couldn’t determine that from the link, but it seems like RedHat’s practice. Or, they could install it from source.

If so, 2.X users still have two years or so to migrate. That’s plenty of time in my opinion, even when all of your code is 2.X. There’s even a library for it.[1]

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html

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Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by rspeer on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @11:20AM (#16812004)

2to3 is a bad and outdated tool, please don't recommend it. You want http://python-future.org/ .

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Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by aoeusnth1 on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:17PM (#16831950)

Thanks for posting this, I didn't know about python-future.

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Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by mugsie on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:14PM (#16813844)

> 2.X would still be included as an optional package, correct?

I wouldn't bet on a RedHat provided 2.7 package. if they provide it, they will be stuck maintaining it, and their long term support contracts are very long term.

On the python side - From 2020-01-01 no commits will land on the 2.7 branch. RH is still supporting RHEL 4, which was released in 2005, and supported 3 from 2003 -> 2014, which (if they keep a similar timescale for RHEL 8) could cause them to try and maintain a working build / test / development system for py27 for an extra 10 years.

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