← Back to context Comment by shmerl 18 hours ago Language fork is unfortunate. Python situation isn't much of a fork really. Python 2 is basically EOL. 4 comments shmerl Reply kstrauser 17 hours ago There’s no “basically”. Stick a fork in it; it’s done: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ shakna 16 hours ago 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". wombatpm 12 hours ago 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. shmerl 17 hours ago Which is better than this mess with Lua situation.
kstrauser 17 hours ago There’s no “basically”. Stick a fork in it; it’s done: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ shakna 16 hours ago 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". wombatpm 12 hours ago 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. shmerl 17 hours ago Which is better than this mess with Lua situation.
shakna 16 hours ago 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". wombatpm 12 hours ago 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.
wombatpm 12 hours ago 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.
There’s no “basically”. Stick a fork in it; it’s done: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
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".
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.
Which is better than this mess with Lua situation.