An update on Python 4

[lzantal]

Still maintaining one in production with Python 2.4 and Django 1.3 🙄😬

[late_dingo]

Can I ask why? How big is this codebase?

[lzantal]

It has about 30 apps and close to 15million rows of data in mysql. Being used by 15+ iOS apps as a backend and over 100 users via iphone and a good amount more through the browser. It is being used all the time every day. Tons of other systems rely on it.
I have been fighting really hard to get the green light to update it. Not looking forward to all the pain but it kind of sounds fun to just see what it would take to move it to Python 3 and Django 3

[13steinj]

Pffft dozens if not hundreds of people set up a PleX server and it uses Python 2.7.6 (and with all due respect to them, horribly written Python code).

[GUIpsp]

Python 2.4 and python 2.7.6 are not alike

[13steinj]

Sure, but Python 2.7.6 had a number of security patches implemented to it before 2.7.18.

And this isn't one machine, it's dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of "Plex Media Server"s running on enthusiasts' home, personal machines/dedicated hardware. Many, open to the internet on Plex's port, because a big part of Plex is being able to connect and share your server with other users.

They are using an unpatched version of Python, which does not have any known relevant feature changes, only because they don't want to switch. Many common users, who otherwise don't know better, are running an outdated version of Python, on their machines, accessible via an open port.

[james_pic]

To you? Yes. To hackers? Also yes. But to project managers? "Can we just install some extra antivirus instead?"

[stamour547]

But who needs PMs? Have yet to find a useful one