Wherein a random nerd tries and fails to combine “Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models” code and data to reproduce research. Reproducing any research is a project I’ve long wanted to undertake, and this seemed like an ideal candidate: Interesting result in a cool field Python code Unfortunately, it was not to be. Unsupported Python For context: Python 3.0 […] was released on December 3, 2008 and In November 2014, it was announced that Python 2.7 would be supported until 2020, but users were encouraged to move to Python 3 as soon as possible. The initial commit of the research project was in 2022. The readme says that the project requires Python 2.7. There could be legitimate reasons why they did this, but it’s not looking good. The project must also require some other version of Python, because some of the syntax is not compatible with Python 2.7. But having used Python since the days of 2.4 or so, this is something I would’ve dealt with if other blockers…
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