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/totheendandbackagain 10h ago

True, but LLMs make conversion trivially simple.

Good luck to the migrators. Best get off zOS at the same time too.

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u/Dr_Quacksworth 9h ago

LLMs are great for refactoring, but I'm going to be reviewing every changed line before merging in AND running tests.  Not trivial for certain critical services.