[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

Berker Peksağ berker.peksag at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 12:18:42 EST 2017


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The download button of https://www.python.org/ currently gives the
> choice between Python 2.7 and 3.6. I read more and more articles
> saying that we reached a point where Python 3 became more popular than
> Python 2, Python 3 has now enough new features to convince developers,
> etc.
>
> Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show
> Python 3.6 *by default*?
>
> For example, I expect a single big [DOWNLOAD] button which would start
> the download of Python 3.6 for my platform.
>
> If we cannot agree on hiding Python 2 by default, maybe we can at
> least replace the big [DOWNLOAD] button of Python 2 with a smaller
> button or replace it with a link to a different download page?
>
> Latest news: Django 2.0 and Pyramid 2.0 will simply drop Python 2 support.

+1 from me too. It should be easily implemented so let me know if
there is a consensus :)

--Berker


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