Kickoff for Python 2 Sunsetting Communications Work

1 · Sumana Harihareswara · Aug. 5, 2019, 1:16 p.m.
Python's 2.x line will reach End of Life on January 1, 2020, meaning that the maintainers of Python 2 will stop supporting it, even for security patches. Many institutions and codebases have not yet ported their code from Python 2 to Python 3. And many of them haven't even heard yet about the upcoming EOL. Volunteers have made many resources to help publicize and educate, but there's still more work to be done. So the Python Software Foundation has contracted with my firm, Changeset Consulting,...