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Do you have any examples of breaking changes in minor releases? I use Python every day but haven't come across any, but then I'm not doing data analysis with it
by drcongo 2y ago
Do you have any examples of breaking changes in minor releases? I use Python every day but haven't come across any, but then I'm not doing data analysis with it so there's probably a huge chunk of Python that I never even think about.
- relaxing 2y agoYou’ve never had to use two packages that required incompatible Python versions?
- drcongo 2y agoNot that I can remember. But that's the fault of the packages rather than Python isn't it? I've definitely never run into packages needing different minor versions like 3.12.x and 3.12.y
- fulafel 2y agoThe deprecation policy allows backwards incompatible changes after being documented and printing a deprecation warning for 2 releases. There are only minor releases in the current era of Python development (Python 3.10, 3.11 etc and Python 4.0 only in the far horizon) https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/#making-incompatible-changes https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/#making-incompatible-change...