Python 2.x support for CentOS 6 beyond January 1, 2020?

[jbirmingham]

CentOS 6 has an EOL date of November 30, 2020 but Python 2.x has an earlier EOL date of January 1, 2020. Should I expect CentOS to continue to support Python 2.x until the CentOS 6 EOL date or will CentOS support for Python 2.x cease on January 1, 2020?

[TrevorH]

Yes. Sort of. Bear in mind that all of CentOS 6 is in what's (maybe used to be) production phase 3 where Redhat only fix bugs that are deemed critical and maybe important. But since all of the system tools like yum are written in python 2, it's not going away.