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Re:Write Posix Shell by hedora on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:26AM (#35109738)
Yeah, but perl 5 hasn’t broken compatibility (as far as I’ve noticed) since 2000 or so. Python breaks compatibility every week, in practice. Does LSB include some sort of magical frozen in time version of python 2 or something?
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Re:Write Posix Shell by gabrielhidasy on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:41AM (#35119406)
In my 12 years of python I was hit with compatibility problems once, in a school project where someone started in python 2 and we changed for python 3. What libraries break that often so I can stay away?
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Re:Write Posix Shell by hedora on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:15PM (#35122906)
scipy / numpy / etc broke multiple times for me.

I’m usually dealing with other people’s python, so I don’t remember which ones broke. Usually stuff around 3rd party services, async I/O or parsing.

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