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Re:Ask HN: Right to Repair for Software? by robertlagrant on Friday January 27, 2023 @06:26AM (#34544894)
> There are a wide range of programs that broke when Python 2 went away.

Python 2 still exists. Those programmes will break if you try and run them on Python 3, but that's not the same.

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Re:Ask HN: Right to Repair for Software? by nibbleshifter on Friday January 27, 2023 @06:54AM (#34545056)
A few distros have stopped shipping it in a usable manner in their repos.
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Re:Ask HN: Right to Repair for Software? by robertlagrant on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:20AM (#34556330)
Indeed. Additionally, people can install it themselves, or run their programs through a Python 2 Docker image.
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