Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

Alister alister.ware at ntlworld.com
Thu Oct 24 06:30:38 EDT 2013


On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:43:18 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> On 24/10/2013 09:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> <dufriz <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be
>> actually adopted by the Python community at
>>> large as their standard.
>>
>> We're planning to start the switch on 25th December 2013, 14h UTC. It
>> should be finished at most 48 hours later. You should expect some
>> intermittent problems during the first few hours, but at the end all
>> uses of Twisted will be replaced with Tornado and asyncio (and
>> camelCase methods will have ceased to be).
>>
>> By the way, if you want to join us, one week later we'll also switch
>> the Internet to IPv6 (except Germany).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Antoine.
>>
>>
>>
> You forgot to mention that the whole world is switching to driving on
> the left hand side of the road at the same time.

that is not true, because of the scale of the problem Bicycles will be 
switching 1st with cars & lorries switching a week later.



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