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Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3?

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Travis McGee <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> What's the deal? If I want to make a distributable software package, should
> it be 2 or 3? Enquiring minds want to know.

3.x alone isn't a bad option, but it doesn't really have to be an
either-or decision.  That is, even pretty substantial code bases can
run on both, without any 2to3 or 3to2.

Personally, I'd think very carefully before committing to a dependency
that's still 2.x-only today.

EG, when I was looking for a 3.x version of pygtk, it turned out that
pygtk was being replaced by something called "gobject", which runs on
both 2.x and 3.x.  I happily made my pygtk scripts use gobject, and
now they're portable between 2.x and 3.x - there was even a script
provided that made most of the changes for me.

Here's a link to a presentation I did at my local Python User Group
about writing code to run on both 2.x and 3.x:
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/Intro-to-Python/

HTH

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So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Travis McGee <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-27 00:04 -0500
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-27 00:07 -0500
    Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-27 16:14 +1100
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-12-26 23:20 -0600
    Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-02 16:34 +0000
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-26 21:29 -0800
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-27 11:13 +0530
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-27 17:00 +1100
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-26 22:23 -0800
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-27 16:21 +0530
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-27 22:06 +1100
    Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-27 22:34 +1100
      Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-27 22:46 +1100
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-27 07:13 -0500
  Re: So, what's the real story on Python 2 vs Python 3? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-02 16:28 +0000

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