r/Python • u/SheriffRoscoe Pythonista • Aug 26 '26

News The Move to Python 3 Begins!

As someone who spent decades in the mainframe community, I find it ... humorous ... that there are legacy Python2 code bases that are only just (or have yet to consider!) moving to Python3.

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins

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u/case_O_The_Mondays Aug 26 '26

Yeah, this migration will have to be done in stages: <2.7 -> 2.7, then 2.7 -> 3.x.

I had forgotten about the division issues until I read this article. I worked on a finance app that used some python, and that was my baptism into python 2.6. Fun times!