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Subject: Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:45:29 +0100
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On 24/10/2013 09:37, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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
>

Sorry, there's problems with all version of both Windows and Linux so 
we're reverting with immediate effect to VMS.

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence