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/LungeloSLX 5d ago

Earlier on in Python 3’s life, this move was unnecessarily risky. But now staying on Python 2 is the more risky option. The lack of security updates, buggy libs that are no longer getting fixed

Good CTOs made the call to stay on 2 and stuck with it. Great CTOs found a way to make the migration and keep the business going

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u/iluvatar 5d ago

The perfect example of "tell you you've never run an IT department without telling me you've never run an IT department". It is absolutely not the more risky option. Are there some cases where it might be? Yes. Ours was not one of them.

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u/LungeloSLX 5d ago

Whether I ran an IT department or not doesn’t matter. There’s good and there’s great and I know which one you are

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u/iluvatar 4d ago

Ha ha. You have nowhere near enough information to be making that sort of assessment.