[Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Bruno Cauet <brunocauet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hesitated a while before deciding not to include it! Apart from python
> core development what would be the reasons to work mostly on this version ?
> I'll fix the omission right ahead.

My main reason is that I'm running Debian Wheezy here (the current
stable release of Debian), and Wheezy ships with Python 3.2. If I want
to use anything newer than 3.2, I have to either hunt down a
backported package, or build from source. And if I'm going to build
from source (which, for me, is easier than digging through
wheezy-backports anyway), I may as well build from Mercurial on the
default branch rather than taking a specific version tarball.

(For what it's worth, Debian Jessie - the next release - ships with
3.4, so on my Jessie boxes I don't bother building Python from
source.)

ChrisA