[jnbiche]

Please don't use Python 2 for any software that anyone else will ever have to work with or maintain.

Python 2 is very close to being not supported anymore, which means no more security updates, etc.

[kgraves]

Totally agree, but unfortunately, when you're in a slow moving industry you don't have the luxury of doing rewrites on a whim.

You'd be surprised how Python 2 is _still_ being used in this day and age.

[jnbiche]

OK, but please just tell your bosses that their poor decisions to build new software in Python 2 will put your companies at risk of security exploits for the lifetime of the new software you're building in Python 2.

I can almost understand if you have legacy software that your bosses don't want to move to Python 3, but actually building new software in Python 2? It's just crazy and asking for serious problems in the very near future.

[kgraves]

> ...But actually building _new_ software in Python 2? It's just crazy and asking for serious problems in the very near future.

Yes, sadly this still happens.