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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by drewmol on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:53PM (#22714600)
> the answer is almost certainly that Python3 or some key libraries didn't exist.

This has not been my experience, even within the past few years on occasion.

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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by dmurray on Saturday March 28, 2020 @06:09PM (#22714698)
Really? The only other answer I can imagine is "all our other projects are in Python 2". And generally that means you will reuse some code from those projects. What other reasons have you seen?
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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by mokus on Saturday March 28, 2020 @07:24PM (#22715091)
By far the most common I run into (even for code started in 2020) - “I dunno, I just typed ‘python’ and used that”
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