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Trying to move, but it's tough. Old codebase, lots of deps, and no real benefit to upgrading to 3.6, nothing our end users will care about or notice (or pay for).

Upgrading to Python 3 is a chore. We have to do it, but it's not fun and it's barely useful.



Well said.


don't your users in 2020 care you are using an unsupported language? security wise


Of course not. That's the point.


the users care that your site is secure, especially if you're using their confidential info.

can you achieve security with a dead language? I don't think so.


Users care very little about security, actually.


I would argue py3 has negative utility for that reason. Plus, the mess of 3.5 vs 3.6 vs 3.7.


What happened between those?


Nothing obviously a "mess." Your guess is as good as mine.


At worst async became a keyword in 3.5. I have to say I am enjoying f-strings from 3.6.




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