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

[Barry Warsaw]

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