Python3WOS has gone over 50%
Over 50% of the top 200 most downloaded packages on PyPI are python 3 compatible. So http://python3wos.appspot.com/ has become the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers. It took 4 years from the initial python 3.0 release. No one expected 3.0 to be picked up as fast as any 2.X increment, though 4 years feels like a bit much to me. Anyways, congratulations to us & python! Yuval Greenfield
On Dec 15, 2012, at 04:21 PM, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
Over 50% of the top 200 most downloaded packages on PyPI are python 3 compatible.
This is really fantastic. We're turning a corner and I think we're at the point were *not* having Python 3 support means the package is crufty and old. :) It's great to see big projects like Twisted and Django getting their first Python 3 compatible versions in people's hands too.
So http://python3wos.appspot.com/ has become the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers.
It took 4 years from the initial python 3.0 release.
So we're ahead of Guido's schedule, eh? :)
No one expected 3.0 to be picked up as fast as any 2.X increment, though 4 years feels like a bit much to me.
Too me, it feels like the right time. We've been making a big push in Ubuntu to get our important packages ported over to Python 3, and I know that can't have happened without lots of excellent contributions all across the Python universe. There are still a few packages that cause us pain (I'm looking at you Xapian ;), but all-in-all, it's really fantastic.
Anyways, congratulations to us & python!
Indeed. Keep up the great work, and maybe we'll kill off Python 2 in another 4 years. :) Cheers, -Barry
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:02:20 -0500, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Dec 15, 2012, at 04:21 PM, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
Anyways, congratulations to us & python!
Indeed. Keep up the great work, and maybe we'll kill off Python 2 in another 4 years. :)
Not a chance, I'm afraid. I've got a customer who has production systems that are still running Python2.4. But in another four years we might indeed be down to just those same kind of legacy systems. --David
On Dec 20, 2012, at 02:13 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
Not a chance, I'm afraid. I've got a customer who has production systems that are still running Python2.4. But in another four years we might indeed be down to just those same kind of legacy systems.
There are still people running Python 1.5.2 ;). -Barry
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