Making Python 3 more attractive

Posted Apr 16, 2015 11:15 UTC (Thu) by federico3 (guest, #101963)
In reply to: Making Python 3 more attractive by njs
Parent article: Making Python 3 more attractive

Many people write code that is going to be used for years rather than weeks.

Writing a library that can run natively under Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 is painful and requires an amount of hacks. Not to mention Python 2.6.

Then, it has to run reliably when deployed with the latest version of every dependency and older ones, maybe up to 2 years ago or more - and your code will break in every possible way.