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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by imtringued on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:30AM (#25892803)
When I was learning Python 6 years ago I was the only one using Python 3 in my group because I use arch linux. It was very basic code and everyone basically solved the same problem. Everyone else's code didn't work on my machine because print is not a statement in Python 3.

That's just plain stupid. Just print a warning and add a python2 flag that hides the warning. Don't release a major version because of something trivial like this.

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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by orf on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:34AM (#25892837)
They didn’t release A major version because they changed print from a statement to a function.
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by TheGoddessInari on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:04PM (#25894130)
Python gave everyone 12 years to deal with version 3 being the way forward. There are many fundamental changes.

The fact that people seem to complain exclusively after Python 2' end of life a year ago feels a little telling. Perl's community roffle stomped their previous vision for Perl 6. Python community wasn't vocal about this being a bad change. Rather the opposite, very loud support.

Keep in mind, I dislike Python either way, but I'm not one of the devs that complains about continuing education requirements, or language adding things over each 10 year period. I can work in Python just fine, but that doesn't mean it feels nice & hygienic to use for me personally.

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