Code review?

[Bob Martin]

in 714500 20140113 233415 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:40:25 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> Incidentally, is there a reason you're using Python 2.6? You should be
>>> able to upgrade at least to 2.7, and Flask ought to work fine on 3.3
>>> (the current stable Python). If it's the beginning of your project, and
>>> you have nothing binding you to Python 2, go with Python 3. Converting a
>>> small project now will save you the job of converting a big project in
>>> ten years' time
>>
>> Everything you say is correct, but remember that there is a rather large
>> ecosystem of people writing code to run on servers where the supported
>> version of Python is 2.6, 2.5, 2.4 and even 2.3. RedHat, for example,
>> still has at least one version of RHEL still under commercial support
>> where the system Python is 2.3, at least that was the case a few months
>> back, it may have reached end-of-life by now. But 2.4 will definitely
>> still be under support.
>
>Pledging that your app will run on the system Python of RHEL is
>something that binds you to a particular set of versions of Python.
>It's not just library support that does that.

Does any Linux distro ship with Python 3?  I haven't seen one.