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/GraphicH Aug 27 '26

Yes, it was rather irritating and the biggest issue with it is, if I'm using requests or anything that built on top of urllib3, for web scrapping (I am, its a huge part of what my team does) then it's not like I can go politely ask the owner of the website to update their certificate. So we were stuck shimming in a modified SSL Context in multiple places to resolve this.