Python 2 will be deprecated in a little more than 3 months

[madacol]

We have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2.That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can.
Source: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

The dependency node-gyp, depends on python 2.

There seems to be much progress going on nodejs/node-gyp#1844

I opened this basically to keep track of node-gyp status, until they release a version which defaults to python 3.

[cclauss]

Don't wait... Just use https://github.com/refack/GYP today.

[DRoet]

it's worth noting that node-gyp : 6.0.0 has been released that accepts Python 3 by default

[cclauss]

Please use node-gyp >= 6.0.1 because that point release has some key updates.
https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

[recrsn]

We don't bundle node-gyp but use the one provided with NPM.

[cclauss]

Perfect. Then just upgrade npm.