(Programs that are mainly I/O bound won’t see much improvement.) However, Cython plans to drop Python 2 support by the end of the year. This doesn’t mean that Python 2 programs won’t compile ...

Six years before Python 2 would reach the end of its life, the recently retired Python creator Guido van Rossum declared in 2014 that "it's time to move on to Python 3". SEE: Six in-demand ...