Yes of course - I think RedHat will be continuing to support a python 2 environment because they haven't updated their own internal infrastructure and also their distributions to python 3.
However - using one of those is still not very smart. The problem is that all plugins have moved on. So Django, Flask, Numpy, Scipy, Mypy, Pypy and so on are ported to python 3. The main argument still stands - why invest money today into a language that is obsolete - and that you have had several years notice to stop using? Porting to python 3 isn't that hard either - there are a lot of tools to help you do that. I myself have ported a website from python 2 to python 3, with tens of thousands rows of code. So all you need to do is to set aside time to port the applications - and if you don't do it now, you WILL need to do it later - that's a simple fact. And then the code will be in the best case scenario obsolete, worst case useless. I can't see one reason to invest a cent into writing python 2 code. I know that I am lucky to be able to define what I want to work with and to set requirements and also have no legacy code. But even having legacy code, it's just a matter of investing into your own application. To say that it can't be done - look at Instagram - they did it with their codebase, and I don't think that many of us are working on that size of codebase..... Regards, Andréas Den tis 24 sep. 2019 kl 14:42 skrev Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com>: > Ha! How about perl? ;-) > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:33 AM Nick Sarbicki <nick.a.sarbi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I'm not convinced anyone could pay me enough to go back to Python 1... > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:32 PM Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> You can get anyone to do anything for enough money. > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:30 AM Deep Sukhwani <deepsukhw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> > Thanks for the prompt reply. Did a quick cursory check with Anaconda, > I don't think Anaconda does it. In fact Anaconda has posted a few months > ago about Python 2's EOL (End of Life) - > https://www.anaconda.com/end-of-life-eol-for-python-2-7-is-coming-are-you-ready/ > >> > > >> > Also, just did a quick look at their professional services, couldn't > see anything suggesting they will offer python 2 support beyond the python > 2's community itself. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Regards > >> > Deep L Sukhwani > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 17:53, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Anaconda, Enthought, ActiveState, Red Hat and maybe others as well. > >> >> Also large companies can do their own support. > >> >> > >> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:11 AM Deep Sukhwani < > deepsukhw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > Wow, TIL there are companies selling support for Python 2? Never > heard of it. So basically we are saying these companies will maintain there > own version of Python programming language which will continue to be > maintained as long as they have paid users for Python 2? I seriously doubt > that. Or may be I am understanding it all wrong. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > >> >> > Regards > >> >> > Deep L Sukhwani > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 17:32, Larry Martell < > larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 4:15 AM Andréas Kühne > >> >> >> <andreas.ku...@hypercode.se> wrote: > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > Official access isn't denied - and python 2 will probably be > available. The problem is that you don't get any security fixes or any > updates at all. That in itself is a major problem. If someone is saying > that you need to use python 2, I would strongly recommend them to not even > think about it. All code that is written will be useless in a couple of > years time, and need to be updated or even worse thrown away. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> This is totally untrue. Yes, all code should be converted to py3, > but > >> >> >> that is simply not happing at many companies. They will continue > to > >> >> >> use their py2 apps, and either support them internally or > purchase py2 > >> >> >> support from one of the many companies offering it. Is that a good > >> >> >> idea? No, but it's a reality. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CACwCsY4kf0r8Dyicw9_b1%2B5_SGRK4NM8%3D2JBTaCcVF2kxC5XeQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAK4qSCdgjCPedFX8r1Z61GegRzaP8P4u%2BV%3Dz4NDqti7LfkSLKg%40mail.gmail.com.
