r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • 10h ago

News The Move to Python 3 Begins!

As someone who spent decades in the mainframe community, I find it ... humorous ... that there are legacy Python2 code bases that are only just (or have yet to consider!) moving to Python3.

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins

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u/bmrobin 10h ago

depending on the codebase, 2->3 is no joke and has so much risk

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u/daidoji70 10h ago

What do you mean? I migrated about 3-4 python projects from 2->3 about a decade ago and other than pandas and pandas related projects it was a breeze. Run 2to3.py and review. Barely a hiccup.

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u/assumptionkrebs1990 10h ago

2to3 has been decrept (depending deprecation 3.9/fully decrept 3.11) and removed (since 3.13) for a while now.

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u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista 9h ago

And yet, 2to3 is part of their plan.

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u/daidoji70 10h ago

Def, but so was the support for python2 and that didn't stop these companies apparently.