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by dijit 2768 days ago
30th of June 2024 is not 10 years away. RHEL 7 will be the last RedHat with python2 by default and it goes end of life in 2024.

Additionally; expecting them to properly support all the new features and manually creating (not backporting) fixes for issues is accrediting RedHat with having more resources than the reality allows.
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_0w8t 2768 days ago
EOL for RHEL 8 will be in 10 years and python2 in RHEL8 will be a fully supported package even if not installed by default. And I suspect that it is not only Redhat that will need to support python2 past 2020. For example, I guess Ubuntu 20.4 with EOL in 2025 will still have a package. So there will be upgrade and fixes for python2 just not from python.org.
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