Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

[Colin J. Williams]

On 23/10/2013 9:13 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 23/10/2013 14:05, Colin J. Williams wrote:
>> On 23/10/2013 8:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> On 23/10/2013 12:57, dufriz at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not
>>>> even bothered learning version 3.x.
>>>
>>> The changes aren't large enough to worry a Python programmer so
>>> effectively there's nothing to learn, other than how to run 2to3.
>>>
>>>> ...there is no sign of their being updated for v3.x.
>>>
>>> Could have fooled me.  The number is growing all the time.  The biggest
>>> problem is likely (IMHO) to be the sheer size of the code base and
>>> limitations on manpower.
>>>
>>>> I get the impression as if 3.x, despite being better and more advanced
>>>> than 2.x from the technical point of view, is a bit of a letdown in
>>>> terms of adoption.
>>>
>>> I agree with this technical aspect, other than the disastrous flexible
>>> string representation, which has been repeatedly shot to pieces by, er,
>>> one idiot :)  As for adaption we'll get there so please don't do a
>>> Captain Mainwearing[1] and panic.  People should also be pursuaded by
>>> watching this from Brett Cannon
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebyz66jPyJg
>>>
>>> Just my 2 pence worth.
>>>
>>> [1] From the extremely popular BBC TV series "Dad's Army" of the late
>>> 60s and 70s.
>>>
>> It would be good if more of the packages were available, for Python 3.3,
>> in binary for the Windows user.
>>
>> I am currently wrestling with Pandas, lxml etc.
>
> Can I assume you're aware of the industrious Christopher Gohlke?
>
> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
>
> TJG
>
Tim,

Many thanks.  I have installed lxml.  help(lxml) looks good.

I'll keep this link for future use.

It would be good if, after some verification process for each package, 
it could be included in  PyPi.

Colin W.

PS  A problem in building lxml from source is that the build expects 
?Cygwin? and I have Mingw32 installed.