Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

ishish ishish at domhain.de
Thu Oct 24 09:36:17 EDT 2013


Am 24.10.2013 14:29, schrieb Damien Wyart:
>> 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.
>> Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not
>> even bothered learning version 3.x. Why am I bothered by this? 
>> Because
>> of lot of good libraries are still only for version 2.x, and there 
>> is
>> no sign of their being updated for v3.x. 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.
>
> Some Linux distributions will certainly switch to Python 3 by 
> default,
> sooner or later. Fedora has decided to do so for their 22 release:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/571528/
>
> --
> DW

Saucy Salamander (Ubuntu 13.10, released oct 17th) comes with Python 
3.3.



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