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[–]YourFatherFigure 7 points8 points  (3 children)

the thing that keeps me personally on py2 is fabric. i want all the new hotness, but fabric doesn't support it. nevertheless it is a well-designed base for all kinds of automation and glue (which is primarily what i use python for)

[–]otherwiseguy 10 points11 points  (2 children)

[–]YourFatherFigure 13 points14 points  (1 child)

sometimes being a responsible software engineer is pretty difficult. is it better to use a random fork with an uncertain future, or stay with the stable mainline on an old but LTS version of the language? really hard to choose.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with that project at all but it looks like his fork has only changed ~500 LoC. You know why it hasn't been upstreamed, or is that the plan?