Re: The Nikola project is deprecating Python 2.7 (+2.x/3.x user survey results)

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On 10/1/2015 12:26 PM, Chris Warrick wrote:
> The Nikola developers decided to deprecate Python 2.7 support.
> Starting with v7.7.2, Nikola will display a warning if Python 2.7 is
> used (but it will still be fully supported). In early 2016, Nikola
> v8.0.0 will come out, and that release will not support Python 2.7
> officially.

How sane ;-)

> The decision was made on the basis of a user survey, with 138
> participants. The vast majority of them claimed that they either use
> Python 3 already, or can switch really easily.

 From the survey and description below, 'using Python 3' means having 
Python 3 installed, not writing Python 3 code.  Correct?

I must admit that I am surprised that even 7% of those who bothered to 
answer would claim that they would refuse to even install Py 3.

 > The main reason for the
> switch was the fact that supporting both requires a lot of extra
> effort, especially because Python 2.7’s Unicode support is abysmal.

2.7 unicode bug-fixing pretty much ended a couple of years ago or so. 
Remaining bugs either have or eventually will be closed as fixed in 3.x.

> Full results: https://getnikola.com/blog/env-survey-results-and-the-future-of-python-27.html
>
> What is Nikola?
> ===============
>
> Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python.
> It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup
> formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn
> Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image
> galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds
> are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what
> has been changed).
>
> Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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