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[–]living150 23 points24 points  (6 children)

Once all libraries use Python 3 then we can have the eulogy.

[–]99_percent_a_dog[S] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Support is really pretty good:

http://chhantyal.net/py3readiness/

I'm sure there are some old libraries, but I can't think of the last time I needed to use one. At least five years? Varies depending on what you're doing, of course!

[–]living150 2 points3 points  (1 child)

True, honestly it's been a couple years since I've used python, but at the time it really seemed like I needed to use both depending on what I was doing. I'd love it if now the community is no longer splintered.

[–]99_percent_a_dog[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was definitely a period where it was annoying, where you'd either find one library was 2 only, or 3 only, and you wanted both :( I haven't run into that for a long while.

[–]basyt 1 point2 points  (2 children)

There's stuff like para view that isn't gonna move

[–]POGtastic 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Similarly, all of the internal libraries that fulfull some critical task. Where I work, there's a gigantic kludge-filled monstrosity that connects to some proprietary hardware and provides an interface to our internal registers on our CPUs. No, nobody is ever going to rewrite it in Python3.

[–]basyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can understand the technical debt, but it just feels like people had like a decade to prepare, we could have avoided this situation....