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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by TylerE on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:02PM (#22927877)
Because giant codebase that would take effort++++ to do so for no perceived gain, with possible addition of new bugs.
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by mywittyname on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:48PM (#22928358)
> effort++++

effort += 1 + 1

Ported to Python3 for you.

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by nxpnsv on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:47AM (#22932350)
Clearly c got it wrong. The number of + should have been increment so e->e + 1 should be e+ e+->e+ +1 should be e++ ...
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by moonchild on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:03PM (#22930757)
Correction:

  effort = (effort := effort + 1) + 1
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by pansa2 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:38AM (#22931948)
Executable pseudocode!
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by imtringued on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:03AM (#22932965)
That's how we get decades old cobol codebases that nobody understands.
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