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On 13/03/2015 21:08, John Nagle wrote:
>    I'm approaching the end of converting a large system from Python 2 to
> Python 3.  Here's why you don't want to do this.
>

One reason why you should 
https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/python-3-dot-3-trust-me-its-better-than-python-2-dot-7-by-dr-brett-cannon

Of course I understand the problems of time when it comes to porting 
code.  Taking this Tue Mar 21 06:19:36 CET 2006, the time of the first 
email on the Python 3000 development mailing list, as the start date for 
Python 3, developers have only had nine years to port their libraries. 
Rome wasn't destroyed in a day? :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence