Rewrote your python2 scripts to python3 yet?
 

Rewrote your python2 scripts to python3 yet?

https://pythonclock.org/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/0...python_2_2020/

How many plan on using python2 in your projects/scripts past 1/2020?

Are you kidding? I still haven't switched to the Gregorian calendar.

My reaction to this sort of stuff is generally "meh" - just because official support ends doesn't mean software suddenly stops working or becomes massively insecure.

Then I scanned the security issues for the last few 2.7 releases... yikes!

With the types of issues being fixed, I'm no longer sure I want to run Python at all. :/

Off: when my gdb didn't start because it couldn't find libpython.so, I felt I had been transported into an alternate universe created by Lewis Caroll.

That's what I think. But there is still thousands of lines of python2 being used every day.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?...iner=&flagged=

That will change soon.

The only thing on the first page that's actually still useful is Calibre. The Python 3 port of that is still in progress and from what I'm seeing, close to done.

The only thing I like about the change is that soon this pythonclock FUD will end.

Microsoft and Google have spent years making Python more corporate. You like it better? Alright. You kick it out of the mainstream distros? Whatever.

I strongly prefer Python 2, I already made a crappy Python 3 version of my favourite project, which I've abandoned for a newer Python 2 version, and these people trying to fool people into thinking they have no choice keep forgetting PyPy is a thing.

And not everything people use Python for needs more than PyPy at all. I don't know if it will fix Calibre.

It's stupid. I knew a Nokia dev who still prefers Python 2. You enjoy your brittle string encoding. I prefer real strings. There are some highly technical discussions about exactly how Python broke strings. I don't care-- it's a tool.

You want to deprecate handsaws and be sure everyone switches to table saws? Have fun storming the castle. It's shill work, but 90%+ of the (rather sheep-like) community is with you, you'll be fine.

"Meh" doesn't even begin to say it, but yeah, count another "Meh" right here. "Meh" on a neon sign.

Just to bring things from the People's Republic of PEP back to reality, I wonder if raku fans will treat Perl holdouts with the same indignity and one-sidedness. Python 3 is becoming almost like a different language. Historically, this sort of thing doesn't always help long-term. PyPy works for me.

Oh, and they moved the date again, LOL. Every time they do that, it's like saying "heck, this wasn't quite as trivial and practical as we thought!" Ya think? Compatibility would be easier than this, but they know best. I LOVE people who always know best. They're just the best!