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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by MattGaiser on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:18PM (#22929374)
The problem is that the entire ecosystem needs to pay attention to such warnings and it doesn't happen. As a result, these changes end up breaking code in places the program authors never touched.
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by xxpor on Monday April 20, 2020 @07:28PM (#22930058)
That's true in one respect, but you as an end user can use them to know not to upgrade before your deps have changed what they need to.
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by scoot_718 on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:36PM (#22931264)
What? You upgrade your dependencies when there's a feature or improvement you need. Not because they don't have some warnings. Who cares?

The old version you implicitly claim is better isn't, it just doesn't have the warnings from their dependencies in place yet.

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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 by xxpor on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:44AM (#22935334)
I mean, if you're going to upgrade your python version, you should check your logs to see if you have had any DWs recently. If you have, upgrade your deps before upgrading python. If theres no new version available, you can't upgrade python yet.
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