Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey

From	emile <emile@fenx.com>
Subject	Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey
Date	2014-01-03 09:33 -0800
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On 01/02/2014 08:55 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-12-31, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

>> You laugh, but there was at least one attendee at the last PyCon who was
>> still using 1.5 professionally. Software never quite dies so long as there
>> is hardware capable of running it.
>
> ITYM: ... so long as there is hardware capable of running an emulator
> that is capable of running it.
>

...or as long as there's business value in keeping it running.  As I 
recall it took the banking industry decades to move things forward.  I 
still maintain software for customers that I originally wrote 35 years 
ago.  Rule one is don't fix it if it ain't broke, so yes, I've got 
python projects deployed that run under everything from 1.5.2 on.

Fortunately, they all work without issue so maintenance isn't a problem.

Emile

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Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-31 08:54 +0000
  Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-31 21:08 +1100
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-31 10:18 -0500
    Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-02 16:55 +0000
      Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-01-03 09:33 -0800

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