Post #3925600

2026-07-19 01:06 UTC

I have never once encountered a Python program even if incredibly trivial that ran on a Python version more than ~a year newer than what it was written/last updated using

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@nytpu@tilde.zone 2026-07-19 01:16

I've often said that Python is a pure scripting language that people inexplicably use for "real programs" due to e.g. them absolutely refusing to resolve the build system or packaging situation and it being basically impossible to have a deterministic state without having an entire separate copy of Python for every program. But honestly, it's shocking that it is also almost objectively impossible to use for normal scripting tasks too, because they make massive breaking changes every single minor release and no person is going to put every single individual script into a separate venv that you have to activate before running it

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@delilah@derg.social 2026-07-19 01:16

@nytpu@tilde.zone This should happen way less now that 2 is mostly gone and the whole big changes in 3.4 and 3.5 are done

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