Comment by kstrauser Comment by kstrauser 13 hours ago 3 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News There’s no “basically”. Stick a fork in it; it’s done: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
Copy Link shakna 12 hours ago Next Collapse Comment - It might not be supported by the consortium, but python2 still lives, slowly, in one place or another:> The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's Python 2.7 package at June 2024.https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511At this point in RHEL it is only "deprecated", not "obsolete". Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link wombatpm 8 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - In RHEL I would never touch system python at all, and would install what every version I needed in a venv and configure any software I installed to use what ever version I needed. I learned the hard way to never mess with system python. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link wombatpm 8 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - In RHEL I would never touch system python at all, and would install what every version I needed in a venv and configure any software I installed to use what ever version I needed. I learned the hard way to never mess with system python. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link shmerl 13 hours ago Prev Collapse Comment - Which is better than this mess with Lua situation. Reply View | 0 replies
It might not be supported by the consortium, but python2 still lives, slowly, in one place or another:
> The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's Python 2.7 package at June 2024.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
At this point in RHEL it is only "deprecated", not "obsolete".