Using python 3 for scripting?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Alan G Isaac <alan.isaac at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 3/22/2009 12:41 PM Chris Rebert apparently wrote:
> > 2.6.1, the latest non-3.x release is probably best. Most libraries
> > haven't been ported to 3.x yet, so Python 3 has yet to become
> > widespread.
> 
>  This seems slightly optimistic to me.  Until a week ago, there was
>  not a NumPy release for 2.6.  There is still not a SciPy release
>  for 2.6.  Most dismaying, the SimpleParse guys need a little help
>  compiling SimpleParse for 2.6 and have not yet gotten that help.
>  (Is anyone listening?)
> 
>  So 2.5.4 is still perhaps the safest bet, even though it is more
>  awkward for writing code close to Python 3 syntax.

I tend to target whatever is in Debian stable, which starting from
this month is 2.5 (recently upgraded from 2.4).

2.6 or 3.x is nowhere to be seen in Debian stable, testing or unstable
:-(

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