Was a bit surprised at this, but looking into the packages in a work project that require six, a _huge_ chunk of them are packages that are still explicitly supporting Python 2.7 still (usually stuff related to operations).

I believe if you pay money to certain repo maintainers like red hat you can still have a supported version of Python 2.7.

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zahlman 3 days ago | parent [-]

> a _huge_ chunk of them are packages that are still explicitly supporting Python 2.7 still

Do you know if they also support 3.x?

Do you know if they're available on PyPI?

> (usually stuff related to operations).

What kind of "operations" do you mean?

	▲	rtpg 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		yes they also support python 3.x, are available on PyPI, and are related to operations in the sense of like... infrastructure management and the like. You have a huge pile of "sysop Python" out there interfacing with various infrastructure providers who are more interested in selling infra usage than getting off of Python 2. "In order to use our new storage service via our library you need to upgrade to Python 3 first" "ehhhhhhhh kinda annoying" That interaction has happened in the past. Time marches forward of course but.