[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by yuvallanger

We are a year and a half to Python 2's end of life:

https://pythonclock.org/

No there is only a year and half left before python 2 is freed from the shackles of its current maintainers.

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/cpython

The number of Python2-supporting development tools and useful modules, used in the development and in user extensions of Calibre, will reduce considerably:

http://python3statement.org/

There is not a single project in that list that calibre or any of its extensions use.

Would you be interested at least in supporting both Python 2 and Python 3? There are ways to do it in a reasonable amount of effort.

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html

Whoever wrote that document hasn't the first clue what porting to python 3 actually involves for a project of calibre's complexity.

There is also a way for you to apply for financial support from the PSF!

http://www.getpython3.com/#financial-support

That's for libraries and frameworks, not applications, and even then the amount of finance that would be required to port calibre (which is of approximately the same size as python itself) would dwarf all the existing payments, combined.

I am also very eager to help, in whatever way that I can, as I use your wonderful program on a daily basis!

And you will be able to continue using it, regardless of what the twits at python.org decide to do.