[SignalsFromBob]

I suspect that someone, or a group of people, will step up to unofficially maintain Python 2 for the foreseeable future. It's clear that there are a lot of people using it that either can't easily migrate or are unwilling to do so for the various reasons already discussed in this thread.

[takeda]

I'm sure that for the right money you can find someone.

Don't forget that that person/organization would not only have to maintain python but also all the packages that you will be used.

[JohnFen]

If I encounter Python 2 bugs that matter to me, I can and will fix them myself if needed, and submit or otherwise publish the change.

I'm quite certain I'm not the only one.

[marcus_holmes]

Why not just migrate to 3?

genuinely curious...

[JohnFen]

Because of the amount of work involved in porting my existing Python code. Python 3 doesn't offer any advantages that matter to me, so that's a lot of effort for little gain.

[marcus_holmes]

OK, thanks. Good luck with the bug fixing ;)

[JohnFen]

I'm not really worried about bugs, because the code I have works well, and I doubt I'm going to do any serious new Python 2 development.

[marcus_holmes]

I meant the bugs in your dependencies that you'll have to backport fixes to. But hey, if you're writing bug-free code that'll be easy ;)