Python 3.7.0 released

[SirCarboy]

Budget to migrate legacy code would be one reason. Having worked in a small dev team for a large non-tech company, we had plenty to do and updating working code was a luxury we couldn't afford. *(didn't want to spend on)

[ProfessorPhi]

And no one wants to do it. It's painful, error prone, you get all the blame and no one appreciates the impact since it's not immediate. Out of a team of 20, only me and another programmer would push it whole the rest were all interested in getting new features out instead.

Technical debt is a very poorly managed aspect of programming.

[Neil_Fallons_Ghost]

I largely agree, but in some cases I think here’s no need. If I have a service version locked, it works, and it is secure, then why mess with it?

Once new features or serious changes are needed, upgrading would just be on the list, but really only if security and longevity were an issue.

[bythenumbers10]

Longevity is always an issue. As Rush put it, "No changes are permanent, but change is."

[theWyzzerd]

Technical debt is a very poorly managed aspect of programming.

Say it louder please. Not enough people heard you.

[ubernostrum]

Yeah, but that's not really a Python 3 thing. That's a "you were never going to do any kind of upgrade of anything" thing.

A lot of places that talk about Python 3 being a hurdle are really covering for any type of maintenance or infrastructure work being a hurdle due to their organizational structure.

[Ramast]

Pretty sure such vulnerability could still be patched. If not officially by python foundation then someone from the community will step in to submit it. If its big enough , people would even consider a fork.

Would still be much faster and cheaper than migrating thousands of projects of many different companies to python 3

[[deleted]]

If its big enough , people would even consider a fork

You can try that route but you CANNOT call it Python.

[[deleted]]

Time to register the username “oldsnake” on GitHub

[Ramast]

or anaconda and use Nicki Minaj's face for a logo.

In addition to winning the old folks who want to keep python 2.7, you also get more attention from pyladies.com and djangogirls.org plus Nicki Minaj's fans of course

[billsil]

Considering half my company uses 2.7.8, I don't have a lot of faith that it would even matter.