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		Waterluvian on Feb 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python dicts are now ordered You can't walk Python code backwards anyway without already considering the minor version differences. eg. f'strings'.

jkbbwr on Feb 7, 2020 | [–]

At least f"strings" are an explicit failure case and are obvious when you run unit tests / coverage

elcomet on Feb 7, 2020 | [–]

Not only f strings, but any change really.. New operators, new methods on standard library objects... Python never guaranteed compatibility of new code with old interpreters.

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