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Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?

#1
After about a decade, Python2 finally went end-of-life in 2020.

However, a year after that I was working at a pretty large and well-known company that was still in the process of porting existing Py2 code over to 3.

Being familiar with the way that working code tends to stick around until something hard-breaks it, I was wondering how many people still encounter mission-critical Python2 on a daily basis. I know that the PyPy project has committed to continuing support for 2.7, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's still a lot of Python2 out in the wild.

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#7

Python 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?

Re: Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?

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Are there proprietary, supported Python 2 implementations out there? If not seems like a ripe market.

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.

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