[docs] Python2orPython3 sites dormant modules as a reason not to move to Python3

Christian Clauss cclauss at bluewin.ch
Sun Sep 29 16:38:42 CEST 2013


Also the gevent link should be updated to point to http://gevent.org

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> On Sep 29, 2013, at 16:30, Christian Clauss <cclauss at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> 
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 currently says:
> 
> "Popular modules that don't yet support Python 3 include Twisted (for networking and other applications), gevent (like Twisted, but different), and PIL (for processing images)."
> 
> But this obscures the reality that gevent and PIL are both dormant.  There have been no gevent updates posted to pypi for more than a year.  There have been no PIL updates in 4 years and the "friendly" fork named "Pillow" does support both Python 2 and 3 with similar or improved functionality.  The Twisted community has work to do to but is already on a path to Python 3 compatibility.    Pillow: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.1.0
> 
> Python2or3 also says:
> "For creating GUI applications Python 3 [...] has been supported by PyQt4 almost from the day Python 3 was released."
> 
> This will push potential users to the older PyQT4 instead of the more modern PyQT5.
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt5/5.0.1
> 
> Thanks for listening!  CCC
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