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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by brians on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:46AM (#20918081)
I found some Unicode bugs in porting—and I get continued free security updates. Seems fair to me, and certainly not “no benefit”. I can keep on 2.7 as long as I like; nobody’s forcing me to port. Compare the situation with Java!
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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by mypalmike on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:27PM (#20923633)
I like Python. But it loses in the upgrade comparison to Java. Existing Java code almost always just keeps working with new compilers and JVMs. And new JVMs tend to increase performance of your code for relatively little upgrade effort.
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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by afiori on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:54AM (#20925988)
In my uninformed opinion not including a python 2 interpreter in python 3 was the first mistake
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Re:Sunsetting Python 2 by arve0 on Monday September 09, 2019 @12:00PM (#20919356)
> Compare the situation with Java!

Isn’t that comparable to java? Oracle gives you paid security updates on version 8. You can keep using the previous version without security updates or migrate to OpenJDK 8, which have their own security group. More options, seems better to me.

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