Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'killer': 0.07; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'that).': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; '(remember': 0.16; 'bespoke': 0.16; 'ported': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'url:appspot': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'library': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'saying': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'shown': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'then.': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'app.': 0.31; 'libraries': 0.31; 'something': 0.35; 'being': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'everybody': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'wall': 0.65; 'here': 0.66; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'come,': 0.84; 'forward,': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 21:11:45 +0100 References: <87tx8fh50a.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87ha4fgdo9.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-204-139.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <87ha4fgdo9.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140524-0, 24/05/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1400962308 news.xs4all.nl 2876 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:50032 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:71970 On 24/05/2014 20:49, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Devin Jeanpierre : > >> If you want to migrate to Python 3, help that library forward, rather >> than trying to make some bespoke replacement you think will be a >> killer app. > > Few people have Python 3 as an objective. What I'm saying is that if > Python 3 had something everybody wants and nothing else provides, the > people will come, even the legacy libraries will be ported then. > Legacy libraries are being ported, as shown by the green on the Python Wall of Superpowers here https://python3wos.appspot.com/ (remember this used to be called the Python Wall of Shame, or something like that). What makes you think that they're not being ported? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com