Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.014 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'url:blog': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'then?': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'sense': 0.34; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'surely': 0.36; 'possible': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'release': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'first': 0.61; 'complete': 0.62; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'forward': 0.65; 'nonsense.': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.84; 'url:posts': 0.84; 'lift': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: the Gravity of Python 2 Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:26:21 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-207-36.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1389036404 news.xs4all.nl 2953 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35551 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63323 http://blog.startifact.com/posts/python-2-gravity.html "A Way Forward - How to go forward then? I think it makes sense to work as hard as possible to lift those Python 2 codebases out of the gravity well." I think this is complete nonsense. There's only been five years since the first release of Python 3. Surely much more time should be made available for people using Python 2 to plan for a migration? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence