[Python-checkins] [Python-Dev] bpo-34203: FAQ now recommends python 3.x over 2.x (GH-9796)

[Martin Panter]

On 12/10/2018, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/2018 5:17 AM, Tal Einat wrote:
>
>>   The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page
>> -<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_.  There are two recommended production-ready
>> -versions at this point in time, because at the moment there are two branches of
>> -stable releases: 2.x and 3.x.  Python 3.x may be less useful than 2.x, since
>> -currently there is more third party software available for Python 2 than for
>> -Python 3.  Python 2 code will generally not run unchanged in Python 3.
>> +<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_.  There are two production-ready version
>> +of Python: 2.x and 3.x, but the recommended one at this times is Python 3.x.
>
> This should be "time", not "times". I'd fix it, but I'm unsure if this
> is being backported or not, and I don't want to mess up any merges
> before they're done.

Or just remove “at this time[s]”; it doesn’t add much.

Also, “two . . . version” should be changed back to plural: “two . . .
versions”.

> I do think this should backported to 3.7, 3.6, and 2.7.
>
>> +Although Python 2.x is still widely used, `it will not be
>> +maintained after January 1, 2020
>> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/>`_.
>> +Python 2.x was known for having more third-party libraries available,
>> however,
>> +by the time of this writing, most of the widely used libraries support
>> Python 3.x,
>
> Should probably be "at the time of this writing".
>
>> +and some are even dropping the Python 2.x support.
>
> And this would read better as "are even dropping support for Python 2.x".