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		shawabawa3 on Jan 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Removing Python 2.x support from Django for versio... > Rewriting the codebase in a new language (which basically what Python 2 -> Python 3 transition is) would be completely out of the question. Not even close to rewriting in a new language. In my experience upgrading from django 1.6 to 1.7 is a bigger change than python 2 to 3

danpalmer on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

Yep. I've done 1.6->1.7->1.8->1.9 at my current workplace and 1.6->1.7 with Django migrations was the biggest one by a long way. The documentation for upgrades is great too.

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