Re: Bootstrap with old Python

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:17 AM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I would be very surprised to see Ubuntu 16 and Ubuntu 18 drop Python2
> > support from their LTS's next year.
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 come with Python 2.7.12 and 2.7.17, respectively.
> These versions do support the '--version' option. We don't need to
> modify 'bootstrap' in order to keep supporting them.

My bad... I was referring to Python2 disappearing sometime next year
because the Pyton devs cast an enchantment spell.

'python -V' actually works for Python2 and Python3.

Jeff