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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by josephorjoe on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:41PM (#25895082)
The string change (rightly) is always brought up, but the one that has always amazed me is they changed how division works.

Whenever I show this to people they are (rightly) horrified.

  ~ $ python
  Python 2.7.16
  >>> 3/2
  1
  
  ~ $ python3
  Python 3.7.7
  >>> 3/2
  1.5
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by wirrbel on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:36PM (#25959961)
Well, breaking change, but harmless in most instances, the other way around would be more harmful. Also that was I think a „from future import“ option so you could enable it while on python 2.7 on a per file basis
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