# Drop Python 2.7 support in pyjulia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694 "2022-11-03T06:24:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694/1 "2022-11-03T06:24:20Z")

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@MilesCranmer has proposed dropping Python 2.7 support via this pull request:

> <https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/pull/508>
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> The fix for the unittests turned out to just be upgrading Python's \`coverage\` to…ol to 5+, as version 4 was still using HTTP links.
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> @tkf or @mkitti could one of you review this? Once merged this will let us test the other PRs.
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> This also drops testing for Python 2.7 which is long deprecated and for which all use should be discouraged (since they stopped doing security patches in the end of 2019).

Is anyone going to miss it?

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**Author:** ![goerz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/goerz/32/3269_2.png) [@goerz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/goerz)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694/2 "2022-11-03T06:40:14Z")

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No. Kill it with fire.

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**Author:** ![gustaphe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gustaphe/32/18174_2.png) [@gustaphe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gustaphe)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694/3 "2022-11-03T06:56:36Z")

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I’m actually kind of happy I haven’t gotten around to learning Python yet, because it seems we’re approaching the actual death of python2.

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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694/4 "2022-11-06T02:41:56Z")

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Any other opinions here?

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**Author:** ![SergeantMike67](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sergeantmike67/32/25103_2.png) [@SergeantMike67](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/SergeantMike67)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drop-python-2-7-support-in-pyjulia/89694/5 "2022-11-06T03:50:16Z")

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Only issue I see is if someone still needs to call a legacy routine someone wrote yeas ago. Julia can’t call it