The Nikola project is deprecating Python 2.7 (+2.x/3.x user survey results)

[paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com]

Python 3 has venv in the kit. Is there a reason users should get the
virtualenv add-on?
On Oct 1, 2015 10:28 AM, "Chris Warrick" <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Nikola developers decided to deprecate Python 2.7 support.
> Starting with v7.7.2, Nikola will display a warning if Python 2.7 is
> used (but it will still be fully supported). In early 2016, Nikola
> v8.0.0 will come out, and that release will not support Python 2.7
> officially.
>
> The decision was made on the basis of a user survey, with 138
> participants. The vast majority of them claimed that they either use
> Python 3 already, or can switch really easily. The main reason for the
> switch was the fact that supporting both requires a lot of extra
> effort, especially because Python 2.7’s Unicode support is abysmal.
>
> Full results:
> https://getnikola.com/blog/env-survey-results-and-the-future-of-python-27.html
>
> What is Nikola?
> ===============
>
> Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
> It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup
> formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn
> Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image
> galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds
> are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what
> has been changed).
>
> Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
>
> --
> Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
> PGP: 5EAAEA16
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20151001/36b27b64/attachment.html>