Why Python 3?

Ian Foote ian at feete.org
Sun Apr 20 04:47:02 EDT 2014


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On 20/04/14 03:34, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 04/18/2014 10:49 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Depends on what OS you want to be running on.  I don't know of any 
> currently-supported Enterprise distributions (long-term support)
> that ship with Python 3.4.

I don't know if you'd count it as an "Enterprise" distribution, but
ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) ships with python 3.4 (and 2.7).

Regards,
Ian F
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