2.7 EOL = 2020 January 1

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/03/18 18:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2018-03-13 10:58, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> Two days later, Benjamin Peterson, the 2.7 release manager, replied
>> "Sounds good to me. I've updated the PEP to say 2.7 is completely
>> dead on Jan 1 2020." adding "The final release may not literally be
>> on January 1st".
> 
> Am I the only one saddened by this announcement?  I mean, it could
> have been something like
> 
> """
> "VOOM"?!?  Mate, 2.7 wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts
> through it!  It's bleedin' demised!  It's not pinin'!  It's passed on!
> This 2.x series is no more!  It has ceased to be!  It's expired and
> gone to meet its maker!  It's a stiff!  Bereft of life, it rests in
> peace!  If you hadn't nailed it to your dependencies it'd be pushing
> up the daisies!  Its metabolic processes are now 'istory!  It's off
> the twig!  It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil,
> run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!
> THIS IS AN EX-VERSION!!
> """
> 
> Pythonically-yers,
> 
> -tkc
> 
> 

I'd still like to know what the core developers have ever done for us. 
Apart from <fill in your favourite aspect of Python here>.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence