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Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

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On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 6:26:26 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jacob Scott  writes:
> 
> > Today, I'm happily writing primarily Python (unfortunately, 2.7 -- but I'm
> > not sure it makes that much of a difference)
> 
> Python 2.7 is still viable, but is certainly a dead end. The difference
> increases month by month, and the advantage is only going to increase to
> Python 3.
> 
> Any new code base should not be written in Python 2. Any libraries you
> need which don't work yet on Python 3 should be seriously reconsidered.
> 
> > I'd appreciate any pointers to resources I might have missed, general
> > thoughts on the topic, etc.
> 
> Code Like A Pythonista was written in the Python 2 era
> <http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html>
> but is still excellent advice today.


If <link> is python-2 and still the best excellent advice today
doesn't it go somewhat counter to pyhthon-2 is a dead-end ?? :-) 


Need to point this out since the opposite case to Chris' 
"switch to 3 or else suffer in hell..." needs to be articulated:

Python-3 is nice but 2 is ok. The diffs are not such a big deal

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Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-05-19 10:55 +1000
  Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 20:31 -0700
    Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 13:47 +1000
      Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-19 08:56 -0400
    Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 13:56 +1000
      Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 21:03 -0700

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