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> 2->3 has been a complete disaster

It WAS a long slog yes. But now it's pretty much done. And there really was no way to fix the unicode issue without a big painful transition.

> anything older than a few weeks tends to randomly break with some kind of dependency issue

I absolutely do not have this issue. Maybe you're using libraries very different from what I do? But I do think I have pretty wide interests/projects...

> sometimes requiring multiple installations of python on the same machine which will bite each other in hard to predict ways

I don't know what you're talking about here. Do you have an example?

> I've yet to be able to write something in python and call it 'finished' because it never ever continues to work in the longer term.

I don't have this experience.