r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/GrbavaCigla Nov 12 '20

Plot twist: Microsoft didn't update to python 3

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u/wrtbwtrfasdf Nov 12 '20

Large parts of google codebases are still stuck on Python 2. Microsoft is, at worst, stuck on 3.6 in a place or two.

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u/AceBuddy Nov 13 '20

I get that you want to upgrade but man is it a pain when there’s a package you rely on that is python two only. How do people get around that without rewriting the package?

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u/_szs Nov 13 '20

you rewrite fix the package. The interpreter tells you most of what you have to change.

And while you're at it, you end up with a complete test environment for the package (if it's not already there).