Python 2.7 支持将于 2020年1月1 日终止

近日，Python语言作者Guido van Rossum在邮件列表上宣布 Python 2.7将于2020年1月1日终止支持。用户如果想要在这个日期之后继续得到与Python 2.7有关的支持，则需要付费给商业供应商。

Let's not play games with semantics. The way I see the situation for2.7 is

that EOL is January 1st, 2020, and there will be no updates, not even

source-only security patches, after that date. Support (from the core devs,

the PSF, and python.org) stops completely on that date. If you want support

for 2.7 beyond that day you will have to pay a commercial vendor. Of course

it's open source so people are also welcome to fork it. But the core devs

have toiled long enough, and the 2020 EOL date (an extension from the

originally annouced 2015 EOL!) was announced with sufficient lead time and

fanfare that I don't feel bad about stopping to support it at all.

在运维童鞋看来，应该很多线上环境都还是使用的Python-2.7，包括RedHat-7/Ubuntu系列系统标配也是2.7版本。这，似乎不是一个好消息，看来得着手适配新版Python-3系列了。