[_old_dude_]

COBOL changes very slowly, once in a decade or two. Python does not offer support of a release for more than 3 years and a half [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

[yieldcrv]

But a compute instance or bare metal computer that never needs a new release wont have to deal with that in python either

Its only new builds on someone else’s computer that have this modern issue

[0cf8612b2e1e]

I could believe there are legacy installations happily humming away on Python 2.7 without issue.

[remlov]

Several years ago I briefly worked at a major telecommunications provider with services across the southern United States that ran Python 2.4 on their production provisioning servers. Worked just fine.