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Ask HN: What is the status of Python2 at your day job?

5 pointsby snovymgodymalmost 2 years ago
After about a decade, Python2 finally went end-of-life in 2020.<p>However, a year after that I was working at a pretty large and well-known company that was still in the process of porting existing Py2 code over to 3.<p>Being familiar with the way that working code tends to stick around until something hard-breaks it, I was wondering how many people still encounter mission-critical Python2 on a daily basis. I know that the PyPy project has committed to continuing support for 2.7, so I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if there&#x27;s still a lot of Python2 out in the wild.

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sethammonsalmost 2 years ago
Python 2.7 runs two of our critical legacy services. Big public company. Both are no longer being actively developed and the strangler pattern is being used to move these to Go services.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t see the migration finishing for _years_ to come.
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mitchellpktalmost 2 years ago
None. I’ve dealt with python2 in some personal projects, but professionally I write everything for in 3.8 style syntax and then run in 3.8 or 3.11 environment depending on the context.
freelanddevalmost 2 years ago
Non-existent and I&#x27;m happy about that.<p>But I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a ton out there still.
jtodealmost 2 years ago
Historically entrenched, but it has been hinted at that I might get to participate the big push, soon.
runjakealmost 2 years ago
None. Everything has been migrated to 3 long ago.
softwaredougalmost 2 years ago
Are there proprietary, supported Python 2 implementations out there? If not seems like a ripe market.
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Vosporosalmost 2 years ago
No Python2 anymore, all migrated to Python3.