Still, we hadn't yet come across a killer feature which we could only use in Python 3.6 to make us finally drop support for Python 2.7. Asyncio, which is not available at all in Python 2.7, became ...

In 2014, under Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 466, Python developers decided to backport the OpenSSL ssl module from Python 3.4 to Python 2.7, despite 2.7 already being a maintenance release.

As of January 1st, 2020, Python 2.7 has officially reached the end of life and will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or other improvements going forward.

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