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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by vflagger on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:48AM (#25892436)
The lessons have not arrived at the current Python cabal. They just deprecated unittest and are seriously considering to break parts of the C-API again.

For the people who work in the correct companies this will generate many billable hours for no gain.

For others it will be a lot of unpaid work again. At this stage Python should be forked.

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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by carapace on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:04PM (#25893575)
> At this stage Python should be forked.

I seriously (I mean seriously) thought about forking Py2 (Tauthon is great BTW) but then I found out that PyPy has a Python2 mode and will for the foreseeable future. Just to be clear: PyPy runs Python 2 code, and always will. (As far as I know. Although it occurs to me that I have no idea what it's like if you're trying to work with the C API.)

(Also I got into Prolog, but that's another story.)

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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by orf on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:37AM (#25892855)
Where has unittest been deprecated?
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by hwmartins on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:50AM (#25892961)
Probably a mixup with distutils, which has just been deprecated.
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by musicale on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:18AM (#25913623)
> Python should be forked

It is pretty much forked.

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