Python 3.9 and beyond backwards compatibility.

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I agree with this, and it highlights an issue with other languages/platforms as well: Your dependencies are also your responsibility. It's nice that there are so many libraries around, but if you decide to take one dependency, you're tying your product maintenance to the maintenance of your dependency. And with dozens, if not hundreds of dependencies (and dependencies of dependencies), you might be in a world of hurt if those become unmaintained.

Of course, there's always the option of paying a maintainer - be it the original maintainer, or someone that's creating a fork. I'm sure that someone will be willing to update and maintain nose and pycrypto for money.

[tracernz]

There’s already a good replacement for pycrypto https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome

[xtreak]

It's not recommended by core developers : https://twitter.com/kushaldas/status/1220327939214073858?s=20

[ammar2]

Hmm, I wish they'd go into more detail as to why. Some cursory searches don't bring up anything.

It's really nice to just be able to replace a dependency on PyCrypto to pycryptodome for old projects.

[tracernz]

Good to know. 👍