Will PIP work for python 2.7 after its End of Life on 1st Jan 2020

Question

Python 2.7 is reaching its end of life on 1st Jan, 2020 as mentioned by

https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

https://pythonclock.org/

Will c

Answer 1

Yes. Python 2 support will live in a "community maintained" state though. Folks who care about it, will have to step up and fix issues -- pip maintainers will likely not work on resolving Python 2 issues. We've documented the exact expectations at:

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/development/release-process/#python-2-support

Note that pip maintainers are volunteers and I, personally, am not interested in doing free work for corporations / organizations which are stuck on an EOL'ed Python even after having a decade to switch.