Why Python 3?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Apr 20 05:15:10 EDT 2014


Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> writes:

> [people I know] use whatever is in the OS distro, and that is
> generally still 2.6 or 2.7.

When the OS contains *both* Python 2 and Python 3, does Python 3 count
as “in the OS”?

Or will you only count Python 3 as “in the OS” when Python 2 is not
present at all in the OS?

I think your description isn't accurate. Python 3 is very likely in the
OS also, so you are using some other criterion to decide to use the
legacy Python 2 instead of the current Python 3 also supplied with the OS.

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