On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >> But as others have said, upgrading to 3.4+ is not as hard as many >> people fear, and your code generally improves as a result > > That's somewhat irrelevant. Point is, Python 2 will quickly become a > pariah in many corporations during or after 2018, and we are going to > see emergency measures similar to the Y2K craze twenty years ago. > > The risk to Python will be whether the occasion is exploited by fanboys > of competing programming languages. The migration from Python 2 might be > to something else than Python 3 in some circles.
A lot of companies I work for say they don't have the time and/or money and/or they don't want to risk breaking things. If python 2 ever is not available I guess then they will have to find the time and money. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
