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 Written in Python (compatible with Python 2 & 3).
 
 ⚠ Python 2 upstream support stopped on January 1, 2020. yamllint will keep
-best-effort support for Python 2.7 until January 1, 2021. Passed that date,
+best-effort support for Python 2.7 until January 1, 2021. Past that date,
 yamllint will drop all Python 2-related code.
 
 Documentation