X-Received: by 10.236.124.100 with SMTP id w64mr922634yhh.57.1401344087368; Wed, 28 May 2014 23:14:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.91.245 with SMTP id z108mr4388qgd.16.1401344087062; Wed, 28 May 2014 23:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!c1no19701697igq.0!news-out.google.com!qf4ni17234igc.0!nntp.google.com!c1no19701690igq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 23:14:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:120b:2c6f:21f0:81ac:a51d:678e:5bd0; posting-account=ung4FAoAAAC46zhHJ0Nsnuox7M5gDvs_ NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:120b:2c6f:21f0:81ac:a51d:678e:5bd0 References: <7xha49wumw.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <06a5fce6-90f3-46c7-9b6f-101fadc9fc4e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python From: wxjmfauth@gmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 06:14:47 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:72221 Le mercredi 28 mai 2014 22:24:15 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence a =E9crit=A0: > On 28/05/2014 20:58, Larry Martell wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Paul Rubin =20 > > > wrote: >=20 > > >=20 > > Larry Martell =20 > > > writes: >=20 > > > Somthing I came across in my travels through the ether: >=20 > > > [1]https://medium.com/@deliciousrobots/5d2ad703365d/ >=20 > > >=20 > > "Python 3 can revive Python" https://medium.com/p/2a7af4788b10 >=20 > > long HN comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D7= 801834 >=20 > > >=20 > > "Python 3 is fine" http://sealedabstract.com/rants/python-3-is-fine= / >=20 > > >=20 > > OT: wow that medium site is obnoxious. >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > No company that I work for is using python 3 - they just have too much >=20 > > of an investment in a python 2 code base to switch. I'm just saying. >=20 > > >=20 >=20 >=20 > So you're happy because you've support until at least 2020, and the=20 >=20 > people using Python 3 are happy, mainly because of the vastly improved=20 >=20 > unicode handling via the FSR and asyncio in 3.4. Presumably the only=20 >=20 > unhappy people are those who keep bleating on about forking Python to=20 >=20 > produce a 2.8, or has work on this already started without my knowledge? >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 >=20 > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask=20 >=20 > what you can do for our language. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Mark Lawrence >=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Unicode: a reason to not use Python. jmf