Re:Perl7 is a fork of values
by jefftk on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:18PM
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Python is fully on v3 now. It was a terrible transition, but it's done.
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Hahaha no. Much of our code is still v2, with no hint of a transition happening any time soon. It's mostly in maintenance mode.
Quick edit: To sibling comment's point, we're not a tech company, so it's very difficult to get this type of work done. It pretty much only happens on new development (where we are using python3), but that new development doesn't replace the old code.
Re:Perl7 is a fork of values
by scoopertrooper on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:40AM
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Python 2 just reached end-of-life with the last-ever update arriving in October this year. So you better get moving soon if your code isn't completely air gapped.
https://adtmag.com/articles/2020/01/09/python-2-end-of-life....
There are current three outstanding CVEs for the latest version of Python 2. Hopefully, they'll be patched up in the upcoming release, but good luck after that.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1021...
This is true some places, but it's not true everywhere. It's just that the places stuck on Python 2 often have other disconnects that make them "invisible" on the Internet.
Quick search to do something on the web and there’s a strong chance it will be python2.
Pip install? Or pip3 install? Who knows, whatever you do don’t follow the instructions s to upgrade pip as that breaks Debian and Ubuntu installs. Cpan was always a bit ropey but never this bad.