[Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> First of all, it's essentially the route that Python itself took and the side
> effects of that is essentially what is making things less-fun for me to write
> Python. Doing the same to the users of the things I write would make me feel
> bad that I was forcing them to either do all the work to port their stuff
> (and any dependencies) just so they can use a newer version of my library.

Ultimately, those programs WILL have to be migrated, or they will have
to remain on an unsupported system. You have the choice of either
continuing to do what you find un-fun (cross-compatibility code) until
2020 and maybe beyond, or stopping support for 2.7 sooner than that.
All you're doing is changing *when* the inevitable migration happens.

ChrisA