The sunset date has now passed it was January 1st, 2020.Īs of January 1st, 2020 no new bug reports, fixes, or changes will be made to Python 2, and Python 2 is no longer supported.Ī few changes were made between when we released Python 2.7.17 (on October 19th, 2019) and January 1st. So, in 2014, we extended that sunset till 2020. So, in 2008, we announced that we would sunset Python 2 in 2015, and asked people to upgrade before then.

We did not want to hurt the people using Python 2. They can't use the good new things in Python 3 to improve the tools they make. And we have less time to work on making Python 3 better and faster.Īnd if many people keep using Python 2, then that makes it hard for the volunteers who use Python to make software. There are improvements Python 2 can't handle. So, for many years, we have kept improving and publishing both Python 2 and Python 3.īut this makes it hard to improve Python. Many people did not upgrade, and we did not want to hurt them. We realized a few years later that we needed to make big changes to improve Python. We needed to sunset Python 2 so we can help Python users by improving Python faster.

You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it.

We have decided that January 1, 2020, was the day that we sunset Python 2. We are volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language.

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