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The default Python version on Heroku will go from 2.7.13 to 3.6.1 on June 20th (heroku.com)
29 points by jdelaney on June 9, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


I find it amazing that Python 3 is almost 10 years old and it's still not been able to replace Python 2 everywhere. I mean, legacy is one thing, but from what I see lots of people still start new projects with python 2.


Mainly because everyone treats it as a different language from python 2.


A better headline would be that the default for newly-created applications will switch.

Existing applications on Heroku will not have their Python version changed.


I wonder if you'll still be able to set the Python version explicitly in the runtime.txt file


I assume that's what is meant by "default".


> Existing applications will not be affected by this change.

I was freaked about breakage for a moment there.




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