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Comment by shmerl

16 hours ago

Language fork is unfortunate. Python situation isn't much of a fork really. Python 2 is basically EOL.

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.