r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • 6d ago
News The Move to Python 3 Begins!
As someone who spent decades in the mainframe community, I find it ... humorous ... that there are legacy Python2 code bases that are only just (or have yet to consider!) moving to Python3.
https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
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u/Glathull 5d ago
Lots of people with strong opinions here who I’m guessing have never managed an app with actual users or a team full of some of the top Python experts around.
These folks were doing stuff with Python that would be insane today and was pretty bonkers 20 years ago. This is also not your standard 2.7 webshit either. They’re on stackless and have been pushing the Python codebase and community to boldly do stuff that most people would not think of.
Yes, it’s totally fine to throw a few little jabs here and a “finally” there. It is funny. The reality is that the main Python 3 that we all know and love hasn’t at acceptable performance for them to even seriously consider this transition until just recently.