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Python developers won’t let go of Python 2 (www.infoworld.com)
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[-] Alphare@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

While I agree that people should have moved on for a while, the idea that porting Python 2 to 3 only involves "find and replace" or a tool like 2to3 is only true in the most trivial cases. Anything that touches bytes, unicode, network or files to do anything remotely involved needs a lot more care. I should know, our codebase still suffers from the occasional bug due to this, even though it's been years.

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