[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

David Mertz mertz at gnosis.cx
Thu Jan 26 12:21:41 EST 2017


Big YES!

On Jan 26, 2017 12:19 PM, "Berker Peksağ" <berker.peksag at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Victor Stinner
> <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The download button of https://www.python.org/ currently gives the
> > choice between Python 2.7 and 3.6. I read more and more articles
> > saying that we reached a point where Python 3 became more popular than
> > Python 2, Python 3 has now enough new features to convince developers,
> > etc.
> >
> > Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show
> > Python 3.6 *by default*?
> >
> > For example, I expect a single big [DOWNLOAD] button which would start
> > the download of Python 3.6 for my platform.
> >
> > If we cannot agree on hiding Python 2 by default, maybe we can at
> > least replace the big [DOWNLOAD] button of Python 2 with a smaller
> > button or replace it with a link to a different download page?
> >
> > Latest news: Django 2.0 and Pyramid 2.0 will simply drop Python 2
> support.
>
> +1 from me too. It should be easily implemented so let me know if
> there is a consensus :)
>
> --Berker
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