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> [python] backwards compatibility issues What issues? A lot of problems with Python is due to keeping compatibility with Python 2.0. Implicit string concat bi

• mymac 3y ago
  2->3 has been a complete disaster, anything older than a few weeks tends to randomly break with some kind of dependency issue, sometimes requiring multiple installations of python on the same machine which will bite each other in hard to predict ways. Python is a wonderful idea but I've yet to be able to write something in python and call it 'finished' because it never ever continues to work in the longer term. Highly frustrating and in my opinion unnecessary.
  • boxed 3y ago
    > 2->3 has been a complete disaster It WAS a long slog yes. But now it's pretty much done. And there really was no way to fix the unicode issue without a big painful transition. > anything older than a few weeks tends to randomly break with some kind of dependency issue I absolutely do not have this issue. Maybe you're using libraries very different from what I do? But I do think I have pretty wide interests/projects... > sometimes requiring multiple installations of python on the same machine which will bite each other in hard to predict ways I don't know what you're talking about here. Do you have an example? > I've yet to be able to write something in python and call it 'finished' because it never ever continues to work in the longer term. I don't have this experience.