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On 1/6/2014 11:29 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> People don't use? According to available figures, there are more downloads of
> Python 3 than downloads of Python 2 (Windows installers, mostly):
> http://www.python.org/webstats/

While I would like the claim to be true, I do not see 2 versus 3 
downloads on that page. Did you mean another link?

> The number of Python 3-compatible packages has been showing a constant and
> healthy increase for years:
> http://dev.pocoo.org/~gbrandl/py3.html

This looks like the beginning of a sigmoid adoption curve. I do not 
expect to see a peak of 100% unless and until old, dead, Python 2 only 
projects get purged (in some future decade, if ever).

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy