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The dependency web makes it really hard to upgrade one part. You have to upgrade or rewrite all your dependencies and then do the same to your code: I tried thi
by fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
The dependency web makes it really hard to upgrade one part. You have to upgrade or rewrite all your dependencies and then do the same to your code: I tried this several times in the ‘07-‘12 timeframe and gave up each time: the cost wasn’t worth the benefits.
Ultimately, I stopped writing Python: these days I write Common Lisp for personal projects and Clojure/JavaScript for everything else.
- donor20 6y agoIt was made a lot harder by their efforts around intentional breakage. You couldn't do import from past (ie, to get print "" working). You couldn't do u'' to get unicode compatible string handling between both versions.