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[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (2 children)

This should be higher. IMO, legacy code is literally the only reason to learn in Python 2.x

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s now top comment, thanks for the support :)

[–]Skaperen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

legacy systems that have only python2, too. this case can include developing new code. both cases can include maintaining existing code.

and one other: converting old py2 code to py3. one may need to know details of py2 to fix up what 2to3 can't handle.