Python 2 to 3 was genuinely traumatic for a whole generation of developers. The print statement versus print function alone broke thousands of scripts, and porting large codebases meant fighting through libraries that simply never got updated, sometimes for years. The joke about ‘will it work in Python 3’ being answered with ‘we do not speak of this’ is less funny when you lived through waiting for your entire dependency tree to catch up. Was there a specific project or era that hit hardest for you?
Python 2 to 3 was genuinely traumatic for a whole generation of developers. The print statement versus print function alone broke thousands of scripts, and porting large codebases meant fighting through libraries that simply never got updated, sometimes for years. The joke about ‘will it work in Python 3’ being answered with ‘we do not speak of this’ is less funny when you lived through waiting for your entire dependency tree to catch up. Was there a specific project or era that hit hardest for you?