TechRepublicDEVELOPERCXO JPMorgan's Athena has 35 million lines of Python code, and won't be updated to Python 3 in time
Gene Heskett
gheskett at shentel.net
Sat Sep 14 12:05:48 EDT 2019
On Saturday 14 September 2019 11:46:50 Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 9/14/2019 4:37 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 1:37 PM Skip Montanaro
> > <skip.montanaro at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> https://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/jpmorgans-athena-ha
> >>s-35-million-lines-of-python-code-and-wont-be-updated-to-python-3-in
> >>-time/
> >>
> >> I doubt this is unusual, and presume JP Morgan is big enough to
> >> handle the change of status, either by managing security releases
> >> in-house or relying on third-party releases (say, Anaconda). When I
> >> retired from Citadel recently, most Python was still 2.7 (though
> >> the group I worked in was well on the way to converting to 3.x, and
> >> no new applications were written against 2.7). Bank of America has
> >> an enterprise-wide system called Quartz. I wouldn't be surprised if
> >> it was still running Python 2.7 (though I don't know for sure).
> >
> > Yes Quartz is 2.7. As I’ve said before here, I know a lot of
> > companies running large apps in 2.7 and they have no intention of
> > moving to 3.
>
> This is not JPMorgan. From the article "JPMorgan's roadmap puts "most
> strategic components" compatible with Python 3 by the end of Q1
> 2020—that is, three months after the end of security patches—with "all
> legacy Python 2.7 components" planned for compatibility with Python 3
> by Q4 2020." So they must be working on it now.
>
> The 'end of Q1 2020' is about when the final release, 2.7.18, will be
> and Q3 2020 is about when the next release, 2.7.19 would be if we did
> not stop free support.
>
> As far as core developers are concerned, risk judgements are the
> business of private businesses and some of us anticipate 2.7 being
> used for at least another decade. We *have* nudged some library
> developers a bit, especially in the scientific stack, especially numpy
> and scipy,to release 3.x versions so that new code can be written in
> 3.x.
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
I don't have an oar in this water, Terry, other than my bank no doubt has
some python in its system, and its track record of bugs in the interface
I'm being forced to use, which just Wednesday resulted in my calling one
to their attention but I'd say that nudge needs to be set in a crontab,
to repeat that nudge often enough to be effective. I suspect what I
experienced Wednesday was python3 growing pains, which the fact that
they are working on it ahead of time, is encouraging.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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