Why Python 3?

Walter Hurry walterhurry at lavabit.com
Sun Apr 20 19:50:45 EDT 2014


On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 20:25:32 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
>> LibreOffice bundles 3.3. So anyone who does Python scripting in
>> LibreOffice is using Python 3. Actually, I believe LO uses Python
>> internally for some of its scripting. If so, everyone using LO is
>> indirectly using 3.3.
> 
> I didn't even know LO supported Python scripting, but I wouldn't count
> such indirect use anyway.  I meant I don't know any Python programmers
> (at least in person) who use Python 3 for their daily coding.  I think
> this is mostly because they (and I) use whatever is in the OS distro,
> and that is generally still 2.6 or 2.7.

I would use Python 3 in a flash if only wxPython would support it.




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