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Re:Python and Qt simplified by dr_zoidberg on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:48AM (#30821165)
Not just on this project, but I've seen a few more not moving past 3.8 for support and I don't quite get why that's been happening. Did something happen on 3.9 or later that didn't caught my eye?
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Re:Python and Qt simplified by thijsvandien on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:21PM (#30822626)
One reason could be that 3.8 is the last version to support Windows 7, which (despite EOL) is still widely used.
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Re:Python and Qt simplified by gadrev on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:34PM (#30822144)
Maybe it's because Ubuntu LTS, currently 20.04, is on 3.8.
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Re:Python and Qt simplified by eyegor on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:40PM (#30822814)
Somewhere around there is when python changed the collections.abc stdlib naming convention from a warning to a fatal error. This means that code could work fine in 3.8 ish and refuse to run on 3.9+.
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Re:Python and Qt simplified by I_complete_me on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:49PM (#30822910)
That probably explains why when I try to use subuser commands (python3.10 installed on the system) it complains "AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Mapping'"
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Re:Python and Qt simplified by nurbl on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:19PM (#30824261)
A bit of a pain. But to be fair, this import was deprecated since python 3.3, released almost 10 years ago.
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