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Python 2 was widely adopted after its 2000 release but Python 3 was launched in 2006 with improved speed, features and usability; however, many users failed to switch, so both versions were maintained, hindering Python 3 growth. In 2008, Python announced Python 2 would be sunset by 2015 to encourage migration, though support extended to 2020; users must now convert Python 2 code to Python 3.

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Python 2 was widely adopted after its 2000 release but Python 3 was launched in 2006 with improved speed, features and usability; however, many users failed to switch, so both versions were maintained, hindering Python 3 growth. In 2008, Python announced Python 2 would be sunset by 2015 to encourage migration, though support extended to 2020; users must now convert Python 2 code to Python 3.

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THE END OF PYTHON 2

Python 2 was released in 2000 and a large mass of developers, vendors and others adopted it.
Later, major changes were made which could not be applied to it. Therefore, Python 3 was
launched in 2006. This was faster, had more features and user friendly. However, even after
the release of python 3, a lot of the users failed to switch to it. This meant that some users
were missing the new features of python 3. In order to avoid disappointing users, both
python 2 and 3 are improved. This hindered the growth of python 3 as a large number of
volunteers were occupied with improving python 2.

Python made an announcement in 2008 at several conferences, magazines and online


platforms that they would sunset python 2 by 2015. This meant that some users could not
have any security concerns or bugs fixed after 2015. The sunset date was extended to
January 1, 2020 in 2014. Python 2.7.18 released in April, 2020 was the final version of python
2. Users who have their code written in python 2 can convert their work to python 3 by
referring official guides. Python offers several articles about python 3 as well.

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