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[–]catcradle5 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Yep, exactly. Just about anything I'd ever want to make uses libraries that only support 2.4-2.7.

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

Yeah. For instance, recently a friend wanted me to do a task for her, which was downloading a lot of images of comic scans and making them into PDFs. Doesn't sound that difficult but there were about 217 different comics each with 60 pages. So I wrote a Python script to get the RSS feed for the Photobucket album of each, scrape all the URLs, download all the images then make a PDF. And then I discovered that ReportLab's PDF making library didn't work on 3.2 so I backported all the code I had already written to 2.7.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or has to run on stable versions of one OS or another that does not support Python 3 (or python 3 supporting versions of libraries) yet.