evaluation question

[Greg Ewing]

On 3/02/23 5:09 am, Muttley at dastardlyhq.com wrote:
> What if its 10s of thousands of lines of
> core production code? If the company it belongs to wants to add new Python 3
> features it can't just plug them into the code because it won't run under
> Python 3, they have to do a full overhaul or even complete rewrite and that
> costs a lot of time and money.

A possible strategy in that case would have been to incrementally
rewrite it in such a way that the code would run in both 2.7 and 3.x
(various features were added to 2.7 to make that possible).

When that point is reached, you can then switch to running it with
Python 3 and start using the new features.

Also, if you're a company whose business is totally reliant on some
piece of code, it would be prudent to plan ahead and budget for
rewriting or replacing it at some point.

People seem to think that because code doesn't wear out like
hardware, you don't have to budget for replacing it. But you can't
expect third party software to be maintained forever -- particularly
when, as with Python, the maintenance is mainly being done by
*volunteers*.

-- 
Greg