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0 pointsjabagonuts11y ago0 comments

It's just prolonging the inevitable. Discontinuing support for python 2.7 may give people the spark they need to finally suck it up and migrate their code. But hey, if it's supported another 5 years, why bother.

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oleganza11y ago

If people have real compatibility problem to migrate to Python 3, harsh policies will do nothing about that. If I'm forced to rewrite my app I may as well rewrite it in Ruby, Go, Java, or whatever. Especially, if Python developers will prove to be aggressive about compatibility. Why would I migrate to Python 3, just to be forced to rewrite everything in Python 4 next time?

maxerickson11y ago

Well, you can sort of assume that they learned their lesson.

There also isn't really anything as drastic as the bytes/strings/Unicodes left to change.

(But these are better answers to worries about Python3 than they are answers to porting 2.x code bases)

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