Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2

Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by thoraway1010 on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:31PM (#22928168)

You'd be amazed out how many stale docker vm's are out there running old python versions - docker doesn't solve this issue and in fact I've seen docker images get updated less rather than more often ironically!

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by solarkraft on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:24PM (#22928743)

> docker doesn't solve this issue

Well. The container doesn't magically update itself. But FROM python:3.6 -> FROM python:3.8 doesn't seem that hard. Then again a flexible package manager (with recent repos) can do this as well.

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by flukus on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:20AM (#22943667)

For a while my company was considering docker precisely to keep an old python app (described as python 1.5) running. The dependencies of that app haven't been maintained in a decade, will never be upgraded and will likely disappear soon as the hosts remove their mercurial repos. Having the base machine running something modern with the old python stuff in a docker image seemed like a promising solution but the stuck with RHEL7 instead.

Thankfully it's no longer my problem.

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by brianwawok on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:21PM (#22929417)

I am using my own docker image though.

I control what is installed on it.

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