Why Python 3?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Apr 20 20:11:51 EDT 2014


On 21/04/2014 00:50, Walter Hurry wrote:
> 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.
>

It's getting there with the Phoenix project.  Snapshots available here 
http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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