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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by kekeblom on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:16AM (#25891115)
Likely a key factor is leaving support for the old version. If they had immediately deprecated python 2, users would have quickly updated their packages over to a supported version.
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by user5994461 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @07:19AM (#25891433)
>>> If they had immediately deprecated python 2, users would have quickly updated their packages over to a supported version.

Painfully wrong. They tried to deprecate at least twice, it was so bad a decision that they had to backtrack.

In fact Python 3 is the hard proof that you cannot hope users to upgrade, by abandoning ship and giving no way to upgrade.

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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by kekeblom on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:01AM (#25892564)
Well there is a way to upgrade. They even provided an automated tool that would convert code and warn you about the handful of changes.
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by carlhjerpe on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:22AM (#25891150)
Somehow it feels like PHP being a synonym to WordPress and Node going though babel makes these languages different too from perl and python too.
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