Python 3.x adoption

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:33:50 +0100, Staszek wrote:

> Hi
> 
> What's the problem with Python 3.x? 

Nothing.

> It was first released in 2008, 

That was only five years ago.

I know that to young kids today who change their iPhone every six months, 
five years sounds like a lot, but in the world of mature software, five 
years is a blink of the eye. People still use Fortran code that is 30 
years old. I know of at least one person supporting a Python 1.5 system, 
which is about 15 years old. RedHat is still providing commercial support 
for Python 2.3, and their Python 2.7 commercial support won't end until 
2023 or 2024.


> but web hosting companies still seem to offer Python 2.x rather.
> 
> For example, Google App Engine only offers Python 2.7.
> 
> What's wrong?...

Hosting companies are conservative. Just look at how many still offer old 
versions of PHP. These guys offer PHP 5.2 to 5.5:

http://www.a2hosting.com/php-hosting

WordPress will run on PHP 4.1!

So it is no surprise that Python hosting companies still mostly provide 
2.7.



-- 
Steven