[juanbyrge]

Translation: I have written buggy, racy software that has specific dependencies on thread timing. Please do not make significant improvements to Python because it will reveal these bugs in my software, and I will be forced to fix the bugs and use proper synchronization.

[lazide]

If you make something that works because of an explicit memory and concurrency model (and not like there are other options at the time), it is indeed legit to worry about a major shift to those models that would cause problems.

Even if those changes are better for other ways of solving problems.

[lvass]

Is that how you call things that have been working flawlessly and solving people's problems for over 10 years? Is needlessly breaking things that work an improvement to you?

[zelphirkalt]

You could probably simply lock the Python version you use for such code. No breakage there. If you must upgrade to a newer Python version, then you will have to repair broken code.

[doubled112]

This went really well for the Python 2 -> 3 upgrade

[lazide]

It did buy a decade or so (or more really) - not like the python2 distribution you downloaded and distribute with your program back then is going to get tracked down and shot in the head by Guido anytime soon.

If you’re relying on whatever python version is distributed with whatever machine it happens to be on, there are a huge number of problems you’re already going to have.