[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:20:34 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>2008/12/4 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
> [snip]
>
>One thing I'd like to see more clearly stated is that there's no
>reason NOT to use Python 3.0 for new code. I don't think that message
>has really come across yet - in spite of the warnings being all about
>compatibility issues, no-one has stressed the simple point that if
>your code is new, it doesn't have compatibility concerns!

New code that wouldn't be more easily written with a dependency on a
library that hasn't been ported, you mean.

Although beyond that, there may be reasons (for example, the significant
performance degradation in the I/O library currently being discussed on
python-list).

Jean-Paul