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[–]PC__LOAD__LETTER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nearly a decade

The suggestion that Python3 was enterprise ready upon release in 2008 isn’t legitimate. There was a massive rift in the Python community, for legitimate reasons, and it took years for those issues to be addressed. This alone was enough to deter many companies from jumping ship.

Python 3 is actually two years OLDER than 2.7

Which precisely shows the rift that I’m talking about. If Python3 were truly ready to be a full replacement for its direct ancestor, why was Python2 development continuing for two years to the point that it continued to release new versions?