Python developers won’t let go of Python 2 (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev

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[-] Overarch3784@kbin.social 28 points 10 months ago

I think the biggest problem would be libraries which are not available in 3.x. I just rewrote a python script some time ago and the syntax changes were pretty easy to change with search and replace.

[-] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

I don't see a problem. For one, it's been 15 years: the vast majority of libraries have been ported by now. And like you said, you can fix the syntax with basically a find/replace script, so any stragglers can be modified easily.

There really isn't any excuse to still be using Python 2 anymore

[-] 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.