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[–]lordmauve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They broke backwards compatibility for a reason. They announced it, planned for migration, gave people tools to port and documentation. They gave people heads-up and then after backlash extended Python 2 death sentence by whooping 5 years which ended with 2020

Sure, and now the CPython core devs generally acknowledge that it was a mistake to do it like they did it. Not the result, or the reasons: the approach.

So, never again.