[JohnFen]

If I encounter Python 2 bugs that matter to me, I can and will fix them myself if needed, and submit or otherwise publish the change.

I'm quite certain I'm not the only one.

[marcus_holmes]

Why not just migrate to 3?

genuinely curious...

[JohnFen]

Because of the amount of work involved in porting my existing Python code. Python 3 doesn't offer any advantages that matter to me, so that's a lot of effort for little gain.

[marcus_holmes]

OK, thanks. Good luck with the bug fixing ;)

[JohnFen]

I'm not really worried about bugs, because the code I have works well, and I doubt I'm going to do any serious new Python 2 development.

[marcus_holmes]

I meant the bugs in your dependencies that you'll have to backport fixes to. But hey, if you're writing bug-free code that'll be easy ;)

[JohnFen]

I understood what you meant. What I'm saying is that my existing code works fine, so whatever bugs are in the dependencies are ones that don't affect me. Should I make a code change that surfaces one, then I have the means to deal with it -- but that is almost certainly going to be a rare event, as my Python projects are stable and aren't going to see much change.

I wasn't commenting on how buggy my own code is. Which version of a language I'm using doesn't really affect that variable.