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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:37:34 +1100
Subject: Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
>> <dufriz <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be
> actually adopted by the Python community at
>> large as their standard.
>
> We're planning to start the switch on 25th December 2013, 14h UTC.
> It should be finished at most 48 hours later. You should expect some
> intermittent problems during the first few hours, but at the end
> all uses of Twisted will be replaced with Tornado and asyncio (and
> camelCase methods will have ceased to be).
>
> By the way, if you want to join us, one week later we'll also switch
> the Internet to IPv6 (except Germany).

Excellent! It's about time. IPv4 depletion happened some time ago.

What's your schedule for the replacement of Windows XP (with either a
later Windows or with Linux, open to either option)?

ChrisA