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On 15/03/2015 19:05, John Nagle wrote:
> On 3/14/2015 1:00 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>:
>>>    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.
>>
>> A nice report, thanks. Shows that the slowness of Python 3 adoption is
>> not only social inertia.
>> Marko
>
>      Thanks.
>
>      Some of the bugs I listed are so easy to hit that I suspect those
> packages aren't used much.  Those bugs should have been found years
> ago.  Fixed, even.  I shouldn't be discovering them in 2015.
>
>      I appreciate all the effort put in by developers in fixing these
> problems.  Python 3 is still a long way from being ready for prime
> time, though.
>
> 				John Nagle
>

This https://python3wos.appspot.com/ says differently.

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

Mark Lawrence