Python 3 is killing Python

[Larry Martell]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Wed, 28 May 2014 14:58:05 -0500, Larry Martell wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Somthing I came across in my travels through the ether:
> >> > [1]https://medium.com/@deliciousrobots/5d2ad703365d/
> >>
> >> "Python 3 can revive Python" https://medium.com/p/2a7af4788b10
> >>   long HN comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801834
> >>
> >> "Python 3 is fine" http://sealedabstract.com/rants/python-3-is-fine/
> >>
> >> OT: wow that medium site is obnoxious.
> >>
> >>
> > No company that I work for is using python 3 - they just have too much
> > of an investment in a python 2 code base to switch. I'm just saying.
>
> Is that Python 2 code base aimed at Python 2.7 or 2.6? Or 2.5? Or 2.4? Or
> even 2.3? Or all of the above?
>

One company is using 2.5. Another has been using 2.6 but they are moving to
2.7 because it's required by a package they need.  I think that will be the
driving force for companies to upgrade.
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