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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by loeg on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:04PM (#22927904)
Can't do it under the "Python" trademark name, though.
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by habitue on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:18PM (#22928048)
A huge amount of the work of distro maintainers is actually just this kind of backporting and applying security fixes. You're right that technically, the python foundation (or whoever owns the trademark) could come after redhat for making these kinds of changes but it's very doubtful they would.

If redhat decided to add new features to python 2.7, I'm sure the PSF would make a stink

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by takeda on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:05AM (#22931742)
You can, that's what RedHat is doing. It will be still Python 2.7.18 + security patches.

You probably confusing it with Tauton (a Python 2.7 with backported Python 3 features) that tried to place itself as Python 2.8. By backporting these changes they created essentially 3rd version of Python that was incompatible with other 2.

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by cvwright on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:15PM (#22928013)
Oh no, it’s the whole “IceWeasel” fiasco all over again.

Maybe they could call the new 2.7 interpreter IceSnake.

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by chupasaurus on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:26PM (#22930520)
Ice was used as antonym for fire, thunder and others. Should be some other reference to "Monty Python's Flying Circus" imo.
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by takeda on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:06AM (#22931757)
dead parrot
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by chrisseaton on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:16PM (#22928026)
Not sure that's true?

> As such, stating accurately that software ... is compatible with the Python programming language, or that it contains the Python programming language, is always allowed.

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