> The 2-3 transition was a non-issue to a lot of people, It was a non-issue for relatively small scripts. But if you were dependent on non-converted libraries,

> The 2-3 transition was a non-issue to a lot of people, It was a non-issue for relatively small scripts. But if you were dependent on non-converted libraries, or e.g. if you handled a lot of non-English strings, it could get iffy very fast – and blow up in your face months later, in a rarely used code path. > don't think Python was already in a dominant position IME, it was very much in a, if not dominant, at least powerful positions everywhere. It was roaring in webdev, most of academia had switched from Perl to Python, ML/DS were starting to seriously take off outside of research, and it was winning the war against Ruby for the goto language for quick 'n dirty between-bash-and-C programs & scripts.