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I'm no Python insider, but Google has quite a lot of projects based on Python 2, including build scripts for recently released software, so I'm guessing they co
by tannhaeuser 7y ago
I'm no Python insider, but Google has quite a lot of projects based on Python 2, including build scripts for recently released software, so I'm guessing they could at some point maintain their own Python 2 branch (which, again, I'm guessing is much less work than porting a huge amount of script code over to 3 for no material benefit).
- lozenge 7y agoThey already have one - look in their type checker repo for patches that add certain Python 3 features (type annotations) to Python 2.
- cheez 7y agoThat's sort of hilarious... What are the incentives that prevent Google from upgrading their python 2 scripts to python 3? I guess it's more productive globally to stick with a supported version of Python 2.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoNot the one you're responding to, but there are many cases where Python is used in the role of a shell script replacement eg. build scripting and test suite automation that wouldn't benefit from migration and, in fact, would suffer from half-assed migration attempts with little or no real-world testing.