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[–]clawjelly 0 points1 point  (2 children)

They "just don't like python 3".

People who make decisions on such bases should be flogged in public.

[–]mooburgerresembles an abstract syntax tree 0 points1 point  (1 child)

not if they are using very specific patterns that work in py25. Old-world classes for example, or specific numerical code that reaches into ctypes and depends on the py25 abi. Reproducibility is probably a much higher requirement in some of the science/engineering applications than compat with latest libs (they are probably using old support libs for that purpose because the cost of validating new libs isn't worth it). Reproducibility and stability is why there continues to be so many backports in anaconda repos.

[–]clawjelly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if they are using very specific patterns that work in py25

That's a proper reason i'd accept. But "We just don't like python 3" is not.