[Python-Dev] Exact date of Python 2 EOL?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Mar 23 17:42:13 EDT 2017


On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:41:11 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I looked at the "Status of Python branches" to check if it was up to
> date. It's the case, thanks :-) But it recalled me that no exact date
> was decided for the official end of line of the the Python 2 branch
> (2.7 EOL).
> 
> https://docs.python.org/devguide/#status-of-python-branches
> says January 1st, 2020
> 
> https://pythonclock.org/ picked April 12th, 2020 (Pycon US)

I suggest we pick April 1st, 2020, so as to extra confuse users who are
still on Python 2 ;-)

Regards

Antoine.




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