When will Python 3 be fully deployed

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Dec 20 11:59:13 EST 2009


In article <mailman.1660.1260434572.2873.python-list at python.org>,
Ned Deily  <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>In article <4b20ac0a$0$1596$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>,
> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd argue against using Python 2.6 for production work.  Either use
>> Python 2.5, which is stable, or 3.x, which is bleeding-edge.  2.6
>> has some of the features of Python 3.x, but not all of them, and is
>> neither fish nor fowl as a result.  2.6 is really more of a sideline
>> that was used for trying out new features, not something suitable for
>> production.
>
>I disagree with that advice, strongly.  2.6 not only has new features
>but it has many bug fixes that have not and will not be applied to 2.5.
>It is hardly a sideline.

Ditto -- we had some webserver crashes that were fixed by upgrading from
2.4 to 2.6 (we were already using 2.6 in the client and decided that
skipping 2.5 on the server was best).
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