[Baypiggies] Companies moving to Python 3?

[David Berthelot]

In terms of killer feature, having a JIT in Python 3 and NOT back-porting
it to 2.x could be the must have feature to drive user migration.

In machine learning, tools are divided between LUA and Python, and people
use LUA just because it has a JIT and is fast (and easy to embed from what
they claim). So may be if Python 3 had that, it would allow to reclaim the
lost ground, it's definitely a feature I'd love to have.

I hope I didn't hijack the thread or anything but CPU performance (and the
GIL) is a complaint I hear frequently in my work environment.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:26 PM, wesley chun <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Larger organizations take more time to move. The backwards-incompatibility
> is unfortunate but necessary. As more and more large, well-known packages,
> i.e., Django, migrate to 3.x, so will users. However, as Wai Yip mentioned,
> if you're not motivated to move (everything "works as intended"), then you
> won't.
>
> Remember SCons <http://scons.org>? That was invented using 1.5 and stayed
> that way until recently. They were backporting 2.x patches to their 1.x
> system for the longest time.
>
> With regards to the OP, at Google, we're still using 2.x, however there
> are efforts internally that are moving forward with 3.x and preparing the
> shift. I even wrote recently
> <http://wescpy.blogspot.com/2015/08/accessing-gmail-from-python-plus-bonus.html>
> that even the Google APIs Client Library is now available for Python 3
> users.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Wesley
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