upgrade of pip on my python 2.7 version

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 07:27, Mats Wichmann via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> Upgrading to Python 3 is the best answer... except when it isn't.  If
> you want to convert a small project it's usually not too hard; and using
> a conversion tool can work well.

Just remember that Python 2.7.18, the very last version of Python 2,
was released in 2020 and has not changed since. There are not even
security patches being released (at least, not from python.org - but
if you're using a different distribution of Python, you are also quite
possibly using their package manager rather than pip). Staying on a
version of Python that hasn't had new features since 2010 and hasn't
had bug fixes since 2020 is going to become increasingly problematic.

Convert your code. Pay the price in development time now and then reap
the benefits, rather than paying the price when you run into a massive
issue somewhere down the track and there's no options left to you.

Convert while you still have the luxury of running the old code.

ChrisA