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		Crinus on Sept 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sunsetting Python 2 There is Tauthon[1] which backports Python 3 features to 2 and seems to do the "actual work". It has been around a while. It was also posted in this thread below by the current maintainer of the project but for some reason that comment was downvoted to [dead]. By reading a bit around about it, i do get the impression that the Tauthon developers face a bit of hostility from the Python community, so i'm not sure how viable it'll be in the long term. I suppose it depends on how stubborn the Tauthon developers are :-P [1] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

Macha on Sept 9, 2019 [–]

It wasn't downvoted to dead - the author has been banned, they've copied dang's comments to their profile.

(Unlike other forums, banned users can still post, but their posts require someone with showdead on to vouch for it before it can be seen).

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