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Python 3 has been out for how long? None of this has happened yet. What is going to make 2.7 so unmaintainable? It’s there, it works and what is going to chan

• kstrauser 9y ago
  Python 2.7 is currently supported. It's not a great idea, but at least defensible, to still be developing against it today. But the moment it becomes officially obsolete and shops have to justify paying special support contracts to maintain it, I think it'll become very hard to explain why that's a good business decision. There are valid reasons for using 2.7 today. I think it's professional negligence to not at least be planning for the inevitable upgrade to the current version. Honestly, it's almost never as hard as you'd think. The most common hurdles are str/bytes incompatibility, and 3.x only reveals those problems where they already exist in 2.x (where the code is quite possibly not working as expected but silently passing wrong data without warning you).
  • hungerstrike 9y ago
    > But the moment it becomes officially obsolete and shops have to justify paying special support contracts to maintain it... Who even pays for a support contract for programming language that’s already done? That’s like saying JavaScript is unusable because of all of the different versions. Nobody has to pay anybody to use ES3 even though it’s largely obsolete.
• guitarbill 9y ago
  Python 3 has been out since December 2008, so 9 years. It's easy to forget that Python 2 was supposed to have been deprecated in 2015, but that got pushed back until 2020. Personally, I don't feel like backporting security fixes forever.