Why Python 3?

[Carl Banks]

On Dec 4, 11:39 pm, Chris Gonnerman
> I don't think I can surely be the only one.  Certainly, I'm nobody
> important; it's not as if my opinion has any real bearing on the
> situation.  I suspect that many Python coders will stay with 2.x; after
> all, this is Open Source... there is no Micro$oft forcing us to upgrade
> to get more licenses.  If enough people stay with 2.x... will the
> project fork?

There's no need to get that concerned; Python 2.x will exist and be
maintained alongside Python 3.x for quite a while, probably 10 years.

FWIW: I think the Python 3 effort has done well to keep things from
getting out of hand; I expect transitions to be mostly smooth.
Probably the trickiest aspect of transition will be getting Unicode
and byte strings straight.


Carl Banks