Python 2 在 2020 年元旦正式停止官方支持

（点击上方公众号，可快速关注）编译：技术最前线（TopITnews）尽管 Python 官方之前公布相应消息，会在 2020 年停止对 Python 2 的官方支持，但并未落实到具体日期。最近 Python 之父 Guido van Rossum 在官方邮件组回复了对 Python 2.7 何时终结（EOL）的咨询。Guido van Rossum 在回复表示：Let's not play games with semantics. The way I see the situation for 2.7 is that EOL is January 1st, 2020, and there will be no updates, not even source-only security patches, after that date. Support (from the core devs, the PSF, and python.org) stops completely on that date. If you want support for 2.7 beyond that day you will have to pay a commercial vendor. Of course it's open source so people are also welcome to fork it. But the core devs have toiled long enough, and the 2020 EOL date (an extension from the ori ………………………………