[tlug] End of Python 2 (was Re: perl? (was: Employment for "oldies"))

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:37:11 +0200, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:

> I wrote my first python
> scripts around python 2.4. Which current distro still has a 2.4 version around?
> Even with debian/stale, the oldest version you get is a 2.7. So your
> only choice is either python 2.7 or 3.x. What am I going to do with
> that script I wrote 5 years ago?

By the way, the End Of Life date for Python 2.7,
which is the last of the Python 2 series, is 2020[1].

[1] PEP 373 -- Python 2.7 Release Schedule
    https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#update