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pythonclock.org is a pretty simple countdown for the end of Python 2.
The End Of Life, sunset date for Python 2.7 is officially announced to January 1, 2020.
It’s not a 1 April fool joke and not a really something new.
Python 3, a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on December 3, 2008. [2]
So lets say, it was pretty clear who has not switched to Python 3 version,
it’s your own fault.
This a simple dive in for converting Python code from version 2 to Python 3.
Perhaps you have have a bunch of staging or testing systems with different python version and you have to switch between different systems to test your written code with different python version.
Or you tried to use multiple python version parallel installed, lets say on a older os.
That a really mess!
Some project have strict dependencies, and requires additional python 3.x versions to manage the dependencies.
This describes a walkthrough of a build of python 3.5.6 from a source tarball.
Just go to python.org Download section and copy the download link to a python version of your need:
I was looking around to find something similar to perform update-automation on openSUSE distribution, just like in Debian GNU Linux.
Some pretty way, without hacking a bash script and adding it to the cron…
It seems, there is a build in solution which is unfortunately configurable out of YaST2.
Install YaST2 module:
UnattendedUpgrades is since Debian 9 a part of default installation.
Only with graphical desktop environment, its activated by default.
For server systems, the following basic configuration is required: