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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by imtringued on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:45PM (#36647460)
>Python project shouldn't be supporting two different branches for as long as they supported 2.7.

That wasn't the problem. The problem was not giving people the ability to make their code python 3 compatible while they were still stuck with python 2. The python 3 interpreter should have had a python 2 mode that gives you warnings.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by jeroenhd on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:36PM (#36647952)
Python 2 and Python 3 were inherently incompatible for various reasons (good and bad ones).

There were compatibility wrappers for porting Python 2 code to Python 3 but in some instances that was just never going to happen.

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