Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

[Ned Batchelder]

On 10/24/13 9:29 AM, Damien Wyart wrote:
>> 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/
>

I'm not sure what "by default" means, I hope it isn't that "python" runs 
Python 3.x.  That causes massive confusion on Arch, and will make it 
very difficult to support a mixed environment.

--Ned.