On 2021-03-27, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2021-03-27 17:03, pyt...@blackward.eu wrote: >> You write, that "Everyone claims that it's easier to move to some other >> language rather than to migrate to Python 3". >> >> Thank you for sharing this remarkable information! > > You've quoted him partially and incorrectly. He said "Everyone > claims that it's easier to move to <some other language> rather than > to migrate to Python 3, and I'm calling people's bluffs now." > > The point is that there are those who use Python 2 and don't want to > move to Python 3, claiming that it's easier to switch from Python 2 > to some other language than from Python 2 to Python 3. That's what > seems questionable.
That questionable to the point of being laughable. I've ported a fair number of apps from Python2 to Python3. Many of them played pretty fast and loose with py2 strings vs. raw bytes vs. Unicode. That causes as many 2->3 porting problems as anything can, and it was still far, far easier to port from py2->py3 than it would have been to port from py2 to any of the couple dozen other langauges I've used in my career. Though I still somtimes pine for the fixed length integer types that were lost in the py1.5->py2 transition... -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
