Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?
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None. I’ve dealt with python2 in some personal projects, but professionally I write everything for in 3.8 style syntax and then run in 3.8 or 3.11 environment depending on the context.
Re: Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Red Hat still supports python2 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
Eh, barely. The support is limited to bugfixing and security patching, only on rhel8 (we’re on rhel9) and only up to june 2024, in less than a year.
I don’t understand what the point of having official support from RH is worth when you can’t use any new libraries meaningfully. The libraries are much of the reason to use python.
Re: Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?
#13Python 2.7 runs two of our critical legacy services. Big public company. Both are no longer being actively developed and the strangler pattern is being used to move these to Go services. Edit: I don't see the migration finishing for _years_ to come.
Banking? Bank Python?
Bank of America used Python 2 (as of 2016), I suppose they would have updated their software.