Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bayram_G=FC=E7l=FC?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Code review? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:29:56 +0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 29 Message-ID: <52D4E774.6090206@yandex.com.tr> References: <13BCC15D-B1E0-4AB2-9641-673D5B1B6FDD@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: Vt6/OFsna05KWxSTI7n9xg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63872 On 14-01-2014 11:22, Bob Martin wrote: > in 714500 20140113 233415 Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano 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. > Debian GNU/Linux https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Python3.3