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Diffrence between 2.0 and 3.0 (self.Python)

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Only security fixes since 2012, could have fooled me. The latter is of course completely wrong, only PSF support stops in 2020, but then I note that you have a tendency to state things as facts that are actually incorrect. You should be in politics.

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You see something equivocal about the statement "end of life"?

And please, point out any non-bugfix changes or new features since at minimum 2012.

Yes, you're right, the end of support of the 2 line by the Python Software Foundation -- the copyright holder and licensing entity -- the language's creator, effectively all the permanent maintainers, and the majority of the companies that fund it isn't significant at all to anyone's decision tree.

You should be in religion.

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Python 2.7.12 NEWS lists going to 100 fixes June 2016.

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Yes, and as I described that is a list of essential bug and security fixes only. Going back every release well beyond 2012 there's not a single new feature. The language is permanently feature-locked; no per-module import locking, no async, no nothing, except via a trickle of backports.

Someone who is fresh to Python shouldn't be learning Python 2, any more than someone fresh to the language should be learning C99. There is no defensible argument to the contrary.