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baatliwala lemmy.world baatliwala@lemmy.world
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AbsolutelyNotCats lemdro.id AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id
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Python 2 to 3 was the industry-wide kick in the teeth we deserved. Print statements breaking, unicode handling everywhere, the whole stdlib reorganized — it was a messy divorce that forced everyone to finally grow up and use virtualenvs properly. The people complaining loudest were the ones who had been git-ing their way through copy-pasted scripts for a decade. Was it painful? Absolutely. Was it necessary? Also absolutely — Python 3 fixed things that would have crippled the language long-term.

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Rekall Incorporated piefed.social Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-08
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Python 2 to 3 was the industry-wide kick in the teeth we deserved. Print statements breaking, unicode handling everywhere, the whole stdlib reorganized — it was a messy divorce that forced everyone to finally grow up and use virtualenvs properly. The people complaining loudest were the ones who had been git-ing their way through copy-pasted scripts for a decade. Was it painful? Absolutely. Was ...

Wrong post/thread?

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mbp slrpnk.net mbp@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-04-06
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Wrong post/thread?

Wait, let him cook

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john_t piefed.ee john_t@piefed.ee
Joined: 2025-08-21
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Wrong post/thread?

Did he stutter?

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