Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020

Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by eliben on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:41PM (#7582054)

I think many folks are reading too much into this. "Extended lifetime" is bug-fixes. The final planned release is 2.7.9 in 2015 - beyond that there will be source-only releases for major security problems. No new features, no non-critical bug fixes.

So this isn't really making Python 3 any less appealing. But the Python core developers cannot with a calm heart abandon all the users of 2.x, given the state of adoption today.

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Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by Goopplesoft on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:48PM (#7582092)

Finally, sensible reasoning. The comments in this thread and the unnecessary publicity this is getting is probably the only thing about this that would lead to the conclusion that this is a push back towards 2.7

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Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by Rubikan on Monday April 14, 2014 @03:10AM (#7584887)

But if they still get bugfixes there will be even less incentive to switch for them.

And if I look at the whole thing now, "no new features" is not certain. If people are still unwilling to switch he may consider backpedaling and backport some other features to 2.X.

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