Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!cs.uu.nl!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.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 0.010 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; '"python': 0.16; 'happy,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'saying.': 0.16; 'switch.': 0.16; 'unhappy': 0.16; 'vastly': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'unicode': 0.24; 'paul': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'handling': 0.26; 'least': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; '[1]': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'larry': 0.31; 'python"': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'comment': 0.34; 'too': 0.37; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'company': 0.60; 'improved': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; "you've": 0.63; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'url:p': 0.64; 'investment': 0.66; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'presumably': 0.84; 'revive': 0.84; 'travels': 0.84; 'url:item': 0.84; 'wow': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:24:15 +0100 References: <7xha49wumw.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-30-130.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140528-1, 28/05/2014), 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: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1401308625 news.xs4all.nl 2852 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:42117 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:72188 On 28/05/2014 20:58, Larry Martell wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Paul Rubin > wrote: > > Larry Martell > writes: > > Somthing I came across in my travels through the ether: > > [1]https://medium.com/@deliciousrobots/5d2ad703365d/ > > "Python 3 can revive Python" https://medium.com/p/2a7af4788b10 > long HN comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801834 > > "Python 3 is fine" http://sealedabstract.com/rants/python-3-is-fine/ > > OT: wow that medium site is obnoxious. > > > No company that I work for is using python 3 - they just have too much > of an investment in a python 2 code base to switch. I'm just saying. > So you're happy because you've support until at least 2020, and the people using Python 3 are happy, mainly because of the vastly improved unicode handling via the FSR and asyncio in 3.4. Presumably the only unhappy people are those who keep bleating on about forking Python to produce a 2.8, or has work on this already started without my knowledge? -- 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