Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It
by zahlman on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:31AM
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> The problem is that it was removed on a point release (not October) without warning, after setting the precedent of removing another language on a major release.
My perspective is that the problem is that people were trying to use Python 2 after January 1, 2020. I left it behind years before that.
Perhaps because your interpretation of my comment is wrong.
> was removed in [an OS released on October 25, 2021]
No, no it was not! That would have been fine. Heck, it would even have been fine if they had removed it the year before. Two years. Three. I don’t care. The problem is that it was removed on a point release (not October) without warning, after setting the precedent of removing another language on a major release.
> But then, I've been using Python 3 since 3.2 and my first reaction to that was a sigh of relief
And I don’t even care about Python. But I still had to deal with the fallout from that from things I didn’t write.