<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Michael Foord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 22 Dec 2011, at 01:25, Mark Hammond wrote:<br>
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> FWIW, the most recent version of pywin32 has the following download counts (rounded to the nearest thousand)<br>
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> Version 32bit 64bit<br>
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> 3.2 - 75,000 9,000<br>
> 3.1 - 4,000 1,000<br>
> 2.7 - 126,000 16,000<br>
> 2.6 - 46,000 6,000<br>
> 2.5 - 21,000 n/a<br>
> 2.4 - 3,000 n/a<br>
> 2.3 - 1,000 n/a<br>
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> So ISTM that 2.5 isn't hugely popular these days, but also isn't insignificant. It probably means I could "safely" drop 2.3 and 2.4 support though...<br>
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</div>These figures can't possibly be true. No-one is using Python 3 yet. ;-)<br></blockquote><div><br><a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> should have a poll/settings for active <a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> accounts to allow people mark when they switch to Python 3.<br>
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FWIW I heard a few days ago about a UK government department, HMGCC (Her Majesty's Government Communication Centre - based in Milton Keynes), who use Python for research projects. They switched to using Python 3 a while ago.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"></div></blockquote><div><br> if that == True:<br> front_page.response(news_template.render("News About Her Majesty switched to Python 3"))<br><br>Can't stand to do a +1 for the news item.<br>
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All the best,<br>
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Michael Foord<br></div></blockquote></div>