This post was 5 years in the making, @shazow and I made a bet about whether "six", the #Python 2/3 compatibility shim, would still be a popular package in 2025:
https://sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-bet-about-six-the-python-2-compatibility-shim
@sethmlarson wild! let's hope it indeed doesn't last til 2030…
@adamchainz Would you like to take a bet? ;) hehe, it's really a bet of whether python-dateutil remains popular and doesn't drop six, which I think are both likely!
@sethmlarson @adamchainz I just need to write the documentation on issue #1130 to merge it, I think. Probably like 2 or 3 days' work to do the whole migration, so if in the next 5 years I have 2 or 3 uninterrupted days and I don't have to spend them fighting bitrot on the CI, dateutil should drop six before then.
@pganssle @sethmlarson @adamchainz I think you underestimate the CI bitrot fight! 🫠
@sethmlarson @adamchainz So probably 25% chance it is still using six in 2030 😛