Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.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 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'yet.': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'pgp': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '-----begin': 0.16; '-----end': 0.16; '10:49': 0.16; 'from:addr:ian': 0.16; 'gnupg': 0.16; 'hash:': 0.16; 'sha1': 0.16; 'url:enigmail': 0.16; 'comment:': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'message-----': 0.19; 'skip:a 60': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'signed': 0.27; 'developing': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'michael': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'andrew': 0.30; 'libraries': 0.31; 'received:dreamhost.com': 0.31; 'received:g.dreamhost.com': 0.31; 'skip:i 60': 0.31; 'running': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'ubuntu': 0.36; 'version:': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'depends': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'ian': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'present.': 0.74; '3.4': 0.84; 'positively': 0.84; 'received:192.168.0.5': 0.84; 'ships': 0.84; 'skip:w 60': 0.84; 'absolutely': 0.87 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=feete.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=feete.org; bh=UxD76l9 yPp2gamYqMf7EHg51bSo=; b=Do/A1fZ7lswGIL4CBAAkwYtifrjjvtTLWsjjxg5 HEheqCOGtsVQ3JMLr2T60m5CIOD7Y4wktUEh5TTQFnP/d8CuSr/bnNq20sHBFWrp mrAc4jIa7I8UJsnYh5MPcmz2HKPhzikoRRMYxxyl0QuZvMEDBQV04XggvCuj/8a/ k6Fo= Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:47:02 +0100 From: Ian Foote User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Why Python 3? References: <53520052.8030407@my.hennepintech.edu> <5353321D.40903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5353321D.40903@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1397983629 news.xs4all.nl 2888 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33497 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70406 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/14 03:34, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 04/18/2014 10:49 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: >> Python 3 is not the future; it is the present. If you're >> developing an application, just use Python 3.4 and don't look >> back unless you absolutely positively *need* one of the big >> libraries that doesn't fully support Python 3 yet. > > Depends on what OS you want to be running on. I don't know of any > currently-supported Enterprise distributions (long-term support) > that ship with Python 3.4. I don't know if you'd count it as an "Enterprise" distribution, but ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) ships with python 3.4 (and 2.7). Regards, Ian F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTU4mGAAoJEODsV4MF7PWzR2sIAL4P0DhzWr5b7T4tfxSFWvlM A31VEwh1MiL8qQKi+ukzm1lumnqF0VZG5a8VYOrq9F/AgbPmkmdaJ3vwlNSZYYrq X6E0zdszTbnK6ec3zNHsqhWd7id/vzyJG5OQkDgg7K9dHY2r2lYfneIUhKvGy01q 6kaqWWXs77UIeWam2amjhtAMsUZtte/828CoIugHBdZgUhmbbNA8PK6/38w6BSgw 3NzT2kCz0298jqPUUZw++pap0Bb/9tQ+Ceps6KKeCE3QJ12Qn7Viv7TnrpQQnkeT Wt56VWoS9VGodB8h7ozHFGeA11VePN9YdLeM+CuUqNsOxXhuean7ysMiazMU30s= =mv5B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----