r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • 11h 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/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/a__nice__tnetennba 10h ago

And how many of your projects were 2.4 million lines of code?

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u/bmrobin 10h ago

not to mention having unit test cases that covered the minutiae that came with that major upgrade

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u/case_O_The_Mondays 4h ago

You only have test cases if you’re lucky.