Using Python 2

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at 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.