Why Python 3?

[Ian Foote]

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On 19/04/14 05:49, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2014.04.18 22:28, Anthony Papillion wrote:
>> What is the general feel of /this/ community? I'm about to start
>> a large scale Python project. Should it be done in 2 or 3? What
>> are the benefits, aside from the 'it's the future' argument?
> Python 3 is not the future; it is the present. If you're developing
> an application, just use Python 3.4 and don't look back unless you 
> absolutely positively *need* one of the big libraries that doesn't
> fully support Python 3 yet. The smaller ones either support it or
> have been replaced, and the few remaining (e.g., Twisted, Django)
> are getting there.

Django has been there since 1.5. My company has been using python3 in
production since 1.6 was released. There have been a few other third
party libraries we've wanted to use but can't, but we've been able to
work around that.

Regards,
Ian F

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