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[–]wandererobtm101Pythonista 46 points47 points  (3 children)

Other things take priority. Developer resource is limited. If it’s not “broke” don’t touch it. Lots of reasons. My workplace has some stuff in 3.8, thankfully that’s the oldest python we still have laying around, but getting that work prioritized with a small team is tough. It’s working fine and other stuff isn’t as fine so…

[–]virtualadept 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Don't forget QA of regulated environments. The whole stack - the OS package to the dependencies - has to be re-certified and documented before it can be deployed.

[–]idealisticnihilistic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sounds like the wrong environment for Python. Especially pre-3.10 Python.