[OOPMan]

I've been writing Python for a good while now and I haven't seen too many issues between minor versions.

As for major versions...well...there's only been one significant change in this area (2 to 3) so I feel like maybe you're hyperbolizing a little :-)

[jrumbut]

Python 3 was released in 2008, Python 2.7 had some kind of release last year but my memory is that up to about 2013 there was still a serious question of 2.7 vs 3 when you started a new project ("I know we should use 3, but then we can't have x-lib!").

So it happened once but it took up about 25% of the last 20 years.

[corty]

A little. But there were changes from e.g. 2.5 to 2.7 and in the earlier 3.x versions that broke stuff. That never happened with Perl code here.