Consider that the python foundation absolutely has the resources to put a developer to maintain them.
If they don't is because they don't want to.
> and usually complete obsolete
The amount of modules I've had to patch to keep working on 3.12 tells me they aren't as obscure and unused as you think they are.
> I’d be surprised if anyone has a script that’s been adversely effected by this
I'd say that over 99.9999% of python users do not download python from python.org. They use whatever is on their system. Which means that updating an LTS distribution will create mayhem. And that's considering that most modules have already been patched by the distribution maintainers to fix all the brokenness introduced by the new python version.
Also, a bash script from 30 years ago still works fine. A python script from 5 years ago doesn't start.
Consider that the python foundation absolutely has the resources to put a developer to maintain them.
If they don't is because they don't want to.
> and usually complete obsolete
The amount of modules I've had to patch to keep working on 3.12 tells me they aren't as obscure and unused as you think they are.
> I’d be surprised if anyone has a script that’s been adversely effected by this
I'd say that over 99.9999% of python users do not download python from python.org. They use whatever is on their system. Which means that updating an LTS distribution will create mayhem. And that's considering that most modules have already been patched by the distribution maintainers to fix all the brokenness introduced by the new python version.
Also, a bash script from 30 years ago still works fine. A python script from 5 years ago doesn't start.