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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">This is also my approach, and the one that I'm encouraging throughout Microsoft as we start putting out more Python packages for stuff.<br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:barry@python.org">Barry Warsaw</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold">Sent:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">ý12/ý13/ý2014 7:19</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:python-dev@python.org">python-dev@python.org</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition</span><br>
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<div class="PlainText">On Dec 13, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:<br>
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>For what it’s worth, I almost exclusively write 2/3 compatible code (and<br>
>that’s with the “easy” subset of 2.6+ and either 3.2+ or 3.3+) and doing so<br>
>does make the language far less fun for me than when I was writing 2.x only<br>
>code.<br>
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For myself, the way I'd put it is:<br>
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With the libraries I maintain, I generally write Python 2/3 compatible code,<br>
targeting Python 2.7 and 3.4, with 2.6, 3.3, and 3.2 support as bonuses,<br>
although I will not contort too much to support those older versions. Doing<br>
so does make the language far less fun for me than when I am writing 3.x only<br>
code. All applications I write in pure Python 3, targeting Python 3.4, unless<br>
my dependencies are not all available in Python 3, or I haven't yet had the<br>
cycles/resources to port to Python 3. Writing and maintaining applications in<br>
Python 2 is far less fun than doing so in Python 3.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
-Barry<br>
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