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PSA for ROS users: Some things to know as Python 2 approaches EOL

We got an interesting question from a customer today, and I think the answer might be helpful to a wider audience. Python 2 will reach end of life in two months. This shouldn’t be news to anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock, and plans are in place to use Python 3 in Noetic (whereas ROS 2 has always used Python 3). However, the question from our customer was this: What does that mean for existing ROS 1 distributions (Kinetic and Melodic)?...

October 23, 2019 · 2 min · Kyle