Will PIP work for python 2.7 after its End of Life on 1st Jan 2020

Question

Python 2.7 is reaching its end of life on 1st Jan, 2020 as mentioned by

https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

https://pythonclock.org/

Will current pip keep on working for python 2.7 after that date? It is already showing the msg for deprecation of python 2.7. Will we be able to run pip install abc==1.2.3 after that date?

We do understand that after EOL, no new fixes/support will be done for 2.7, so that is not the concern here.

The question stems from the desire to keep running on python 2.7 even after EOL.

Answer 1

You need to make sure you have the right version of pip for Python 2.7:

pip install --upgrade "pip < 21.0" 

That versions will be working for some time. Sooner or later they fail because PyPI host changes SSL configuration to one that Python 2.7 doesn't handle. But I'm sure we have a few years before that.

A few additional version limits for important tools to retain compatibility with Python 2.7:

pip install --upgrade "setuptools < 45" "Sphinx < 2.0" "pytest < 5.0" 

If you use other tools follow their announcements thoroughly to catch them stopping supporting 2.7.