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Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

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  Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2014-01-06 20:32 +0000

#63336 — Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

Chris Angelico <rosuav <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net>
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/
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, that has a massive inherent bias, because there are
> Python builds available in most Linux distributions - and stats from
> those (like Debian's popcon) will be nearly as useless, because a lot
> of them will install one or the other (probably 2.x) without waiting
> for the user (so either they'll skew in favour of the one installed,
> or in favour of the one NOT installed, because that's the only one
> that'll be explicitly requested). It's probably fairly accurate for
> Windows stats, though, since most people who want Python on Windows
> are going to come to python.org for an installer.

Agreed, but it's enough to rebut the claim that "people don't use
Python 3". More than one million Python 3.3 downloads per month under
Windows is a very respectable number (no 2.x release seems to reach
that level).

Regards

Antoine.

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