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It's a slight overstatement for rhetorical purposes. Supporting python3 is not a difficult problem even for large libraries with single maintainers; as I noted,
by enkiv2 10y ago
It's a slight overstatement for rhetorical purposes. Supporting python3 is not a difficult problem even for large libraries with single maintainers; as I noted, automatic translation tools exist.
- tedmiston 10y agoIt's not really an overstatement as much as completely incorrect and misleading. Yes, 2to3, tox, etc exist, but of course in practice it's not necessarily that simple, even for bigger libraries. Take Airbnb's Airflow for example.
- enkiv2 10y agoAirbnb hasn't been around for all that long. Why didn't they write their library with python3 support in the first place? Yes, there are some python2 features that work differently in python3. But python3 has existed for a decade now, and there aren't real benefits to using forward-incompatible methods. Writing code that won't work in both is a mistake.