Python3 - it's awesome

[Eduardo O. Padoan]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> since I've read so much about Python 3 and ran into some trouble which
> was supposed to be fixed with 3k, I yesterday came around to compile it
> and try it out.
>
> To sum it up: It's awesome. All the promised things like Unicode support
> "just work", all significant changes in the lanugage (try/except-Syntax,
> float division, file opening, print) I've encountered so far made
> absolute sense and it was quite easy to change over (I've been using 2.5
> so far). It was really easy to install it locally as my user (I want to
> try it out some more before I install it system-wide).

You can install it system-wide as "python3.0" or "python3" -- I think
that "make install" acts as "make altinstall" on Python 3.0, and dont
overide the default "python" binary. No, you probably dont want
python3.0 as the *default* python yet -- many Python programs for
Ubuntu or OS X, for example, depends on Python 2.X.

> So, why I am posting this here: First, thanks to the great work to
> anyone who has contributed. Secondly, I want to encourage anyone who
> hasn't tried Python3 out yet to do - it really is easier than you think
> and you won't be disappointed.

+1.

> Kind regards,
> Johannes
>
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