[Python-Dev] The end of 2.7

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Apr 7 12:41:00 CEST 2013


On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:11:03 +1000
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On 07/04/13 17:52, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > If they never migrate on the premises of python 3 being a better
> > language what does it say about python 3?
> 
> Very little. People stick with languages for all sorts of reasons,
> including:
> 
> - It's what I know
> - I don't like change
> - That's what the client insists on
> - That's what my boss insists on
> - That's what the vendor provides
> - That's what my web host provides
> - I really love language X, but I need this *one* library that's only
>    available on language Y, so I'm stuck

- It takes time to migrate a codebase.

Regards

Antoine.




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