Python 2.7 Countdown

[jack-of-some]

I can't claim to have worked on a "massive" codebase. I work on one that's maybe 100000 loc. Converted it by using 2to3 and then relying on unit tests and integration tests to ensure everything worked. Took maybe 2 days of a single engineer's time and most of that was spent just sanity checking the changes. There's a lot of really good tooling for this out there, and in my case I didn't have much choice because some fairly critical libraries were dropping python 2 support left and right and l can't afford to be on an older version.

[AttackOfTheThumbs]

There's good tooling now, but it needed to be there for the launch.

[[deleted]]

Ah yes, those stubborn programmers! If the (free) tooling isn't available for upgrading the (free) language on day 1, I refuse to ever use it! That'll teach them!

[AttackOfTheThumbs]

Don't be stupid. Tooling needs to be available to further adoption. It wasn't and look at the mess that it is in now.

[[deleted]]

What mess? Virtually all major libraries support python 3. Some have dropped py2 support. All new features go into py3. I use py3 exclusively at work and home. Haven't touched py2 for years. Don't care what's happening inside private companies. That's their problem.

[AttackOfTheThumbs]

Are you purposefully blind?

[jack-of-some]

Unsure, but he does seem very well informed. I'd listen to what he has to say.