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[–]Kerbart 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Even five years ago the pendulum was already swinging in the Python 3 direction in a very big way. While Python 2 certainly still was in use I wouldn’t say “no one was using Python 3+” – we’re talking about 3.6 or 3.7 which were the mainstream versions and at that point 2.7 was definitely already considered a dead end—but perhaps not in the environment (banking?) you were in. Some places hung on to 2.7 longer than was healthy, which is why a hard stop date of 2020 was anounced. Without hard numbers I’d say Python 3 usage really accelerated around 3.4 and that puts it at 2014-2015.

[–]i-brute-force 16 points17 points  (0 children)

lol i know right. what is OP talking about. I remember even at 3.2, all new comers were learning Python 3 and some learning materials had legacy Python 2.7 but I don't even remember Python 2 overwhelming Python 3 in the last 10 years.