[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 -- bugfix or security before EOL?

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/10/2018 8:54 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Let's not play games with semantics. The way I see the situation for 2.7 
> is that EOL is January 1st, 2020, and there will be no updates, not even 
> source-only security patches, after that date. Support (from the core 
> devs, the PSF, and python.org <http://python.org>) stops completely on 
> that date.

+1 from me.  If so, then that should be added to the PEP and announced 
at PyCon, to end major questions* and speculation.

* There are still minor details of when patches are cutoff (is that EOL, 
on Jan 1?) and when the rc and final releases appear (whenever ready 
after cutoff?)

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Terry Jan Reedy