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On 4/19/2014 2:40 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:

> That said, I don't know anyone who actually uses Python 3.

I have no idea who you know ;-)

LibreOffice bundles 3.3. So anyone who does Python scripting in 
LibreOffice is using Python 3. Actually, I believe LO uses Python 
internally for some of its scripting. If so, everyone using LO is 
indirectly using 3.3.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy