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I'm curious why someone would go through the trouble to stay on 1.8?

• FooBarWidget 17y ago
  Library compatibility. Many libraries are still not compatible with 1.9. It's good to have interim improvements for 1.8 until the ecosystem has caught up with 1.9, because 1.8 is what actually powers production systems today.
  • rbanffy 17y ago
    "Many libraries are still not compatible with 1.9" It's not likely they will remain so for very long
    • grandalf 17y ago
      I hope you're right. But I'd rather that the move to 1.9 be based on its merits as enhancements to the language rather than on the lack (in 1.8) of the sorts of optimizations that were made in the article.
      • rbanffy 17y ago
        I would gladly accept a major library breakage for proper multi-processor support in Python. A better implementation is a significant enhancement.