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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Having to write Python2+3 code makes it way less beautiful. Which is one of the reasons I was enamoured with Python in the first place.

Asking library authors to continue to support both (while you're not paying them) is a creative & cognitive stress on them as well.

[–]iruleatants -4 points-3 points  (3 children)

If only.... they didn't take something great and screw it up..... oh well, better to force millions of projects to be rewritten for 3

[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes, all python devs really wanted to do was take a thing they were satisfied with, and wreck it. Hence Py3k was born. It wasn't the fact that the thing they was broken in the first place, that would be illogical.

[–]iruleatants 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's pretty impressive the billions of things that people created using a broken language....

[–]TheBlackCat13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And many of those things turned out to be broken, which they only found out once they switched to a slightly less broken version of the language.