[Cialug] python 2.7

[Mathew Phillips]

Well I had a hunch that it was a compatibility thing, but I couldn't find anything about why.

Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org on behalf of Matthew Nuzum
Sent: Sun 4/25/2010 2:29 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] python 2.7
 
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Kevin C. Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
> The 2.x and 3.x are being maintained at the same time.
> Many projects have not converted to python 3 yet, which was expected.
> You will see the python 2 series remain for some years to come.
>

To be more clear, many important and influential/critical libraries
are not yet ready. Twisted is an often cited example.

I asked the Ubuntu developers if we could switch to Python 3 in Ubuntu
10.10 to encourage projects to test and adopt py3. In the GNOME world,
PyGTK is not ready yet so is holding things back.

It will be a very slow process. However, not a python specific problem
- for example, many popular web apps have to support PHP 4 still. And
then there's Perl 6...

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