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What do you think you would have to learn to become expert again?

• chrismorgan 5y ago
  Mostly it’d just be about dusting off the cobwebs and using it all again; I still know it all, but my skill will doubtless have atrophied at least a little from six or seven years of disuse. In such a case, having been familiar with Python 2.5–2.7 first probably also works against me, as the distance of time will probably make recollecting the ancient Python 2 way occur more often relative to the Python 3 way than it would have while I was actively using Python 3. As far as actual ecosystem changes are concerned, packaging practices are probably the most significant area where I gather there’s been a fair bit of change happening.
  • biorach 5y ago
    I think you're really overestimating the gap between python 2 and 3. My experience was that just diving into a large python3 codebase got me most of the way really quickly. The only thing I can think of that I had to really read up on was string handling. Everything else I could just google as I came across it. And even after 6 or 7 years, it all comes back really quickly. Packaging stuff... weren't we using virtualenv 6 or 7 years ago? And even that - it's hardly difficult to get working with.
    • alduin32 5y ago
      The advent of declarative package management (poetry et al.) is a significant change. Not that hard to get working with, but definitely a big departure from previous practices.