Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 25 Nov 2024 02:41:52 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <6iKdnTQOKNh6AqD6nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20241120081039.00006d2a@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oNTf+gUtkp9J3ev6og6MkA2nwSVS/GHMzT8/q2J4azL15AzCiR Cancel-Lock: sha1:ipSVP2/al2dbT2emBbQxJBu42og= sha256:2mogOGiD3GhIrCulVaMEkRHLGWsOQPvoKuQZnXR+zSE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61327 On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:35:57 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > I never learned it until M$ started sneaking it into their OS junk. > "What's a .py ???". The good side of that is that it was right near > the v2 -> v3 transition and I decided to learn the 'new and > improved'. Good timing. Esri's ArcPy up until Esri 11 was 2.7 so I stayed with it for non-Esri scripts. The transition from 10.8 to 11 was bloody, not only for going to Python 3.8. Being the 500 lb. gorilla in the GIS field they could say "Yeah, this is going to break a lot of stuff you've been doing for years. Suck it up." Like Windows 10, Esri 10.8 went on extended life support. I don't think it was a giant conspiracy but several different applications I dealt with went from 10.x to 11.x about the same time leading to some confusion. "Which 11 are we talking about?"