On Dec 13, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
For what it’s worth, I almost exclusively write 2/3 compatible code (and that’s with the “easy” subset of 2.6+ and either 3.2+ or 3.3+) and doing so does make the language far less fun for me than when I was writing 2.x only code.
For myself, the way I'd put it is: With the libraries I maintain, I generally write Python 2/3 compatible code, targeting Python 2.7 and 3.4, with 2.6, 3.3, and 3.2 support as bonuses, although I will not contort too much to support those older versions. Doing so does make the language far less fun for me than when I am writing 3.x only code. All applications I write in pure Python 3, targeting Python 3.4, unless my dependencies are not all available in Python 3, or I haven't yet had the cycles/resources to port to Python 3. Writing and maintaining applications in Python 2 is far less fun than doing so in Python 3. Cheers, -Barry