Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Wed Oct 23 20:17:14 EDT 2013


On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:27:29 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having to compile
> code instead of having a binary install.

Because it's trivially easy under Unix? Three commands:

./configure
make
make install

will generally do the job. Unless it doesn't work, in which case it's a 
world of pain. But that's no different from Windows, except that somebody 
else has already worked through the pain for you.



-- 
Steven



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