How keep Python 3 moving forward

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat May 24 16:11:45 EDT 2014


On 24/05/2014 20:49, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>:
>
>> If you want to migrate to Python 3, help that library forward, rather
>> than trying to make some bespoke replacement you think will be a
>> killer app.
>
> Few people have Python 3 as an objective. What I'm saying is that if
> Python 3 had something everybody wants and nothing else provides, the
> people will come, even the legacy libraries will be ported then.
>

Legacy libraries are being ported, as shown by the green on the Python 
Wall of Superpowers here https://python3wos.appspot.com/ (remember this 
used to be called the Python Wall of Shame, or something like that). 
What makes you think that they're not being ported?

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

Mark Lawrence

---
This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
http://www.avast.com





More information about the Python-list mailing list