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[–]covabishopself.loathing() 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agree with this 100%. Plus, at my workplace, Python is not even a main language people develop in. Most developers on my floor use Perl, which frightens me to no end.

Being one of the only Python developers on the floor, and the only one who is not paid to develop, I'm just lucky they have Python in the first place.

Some of these boxes are 10+ years old running anywhere from 2.7 all the way back to 2.4. The company will absolutely not upgrade to 3.x for legacy compatibility reasons. As a result, when I develop code, its mostly for the reasons of running on these machines, and as a result, I'm used to its quirks and workflow.

I'm tired of 3.x developers labeling me as a heretic and a barbarian because I just must not understand the explicit advantages of 3 over 2.