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Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:30PM (#16813984)
The attitude of most python3 devs, which can be surmised as: "I moved my Twitter clone from python2 to python3, and it was easy. What's the big problem? You've had ten years to get this done! Hurry up, you're hurting my productivity."
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Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by freyir on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:12AM (#16818424)
Just curious, what parts of your code are not portable to Python 3? The biggest barrier usually seems to involve strings/Unicode. Or are you relying on packages that don’t have Python 3 support?

In any case, it sounds like you have a stable Python 2.7 system running, so what’s the issue? Nobody’s going to come and take your code away from you.

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Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ... by abritinthebay on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:27AM (#16818249)
Well if you’re not happy about the EoL part then that’s a fair response.

If you don’t care (because your apps will still work and they don’t need or can’t be updated) then it shouldn’t really come up...?

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