[Python-Dev] General Q&A regarding Python 3, adoption etc.

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jan 7 00:44:41 CET 2014


On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:25:12 +0000
Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/01/2014 23:16, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > For anyone that isn't already aware, I wrote a Q & A about Python 3 last
> > year (in response to an article about how we should have fixed the GIL
> > instead of Unicode), and I've updated it extensively over the past
> > several days due to Alex's misunderstanding of the objectives for Python
> > 3.4 as well as Armin's latest piece on the increased difficulties in
> > writing wire protocol handling code.
> >
> > The two main additions I currently have planned are a question
> > specifically about the state of the WSGI protocol (it works, but it an
> > error prone way), as well as one on what I'd like to see as the next
> > steps in encouraging Python 3 adoption now that we're within 18 months
> > of the planned date for 2.7 to enter security fix only mode (which
> > involve encouraging community workshops to switch to teaching Python 3.4
> > initially, with Python 2.7 as an optional follow up, helping Ubuntu &
> > Fedora with their transitions to Py3 by default, bringing 3.5 closer to
> > parity with Python 2 for wire protocol development, and, on the Red
> > Hat/Fedora side, helping to encourage the adoption of software
> > collections as a mechanism for decoupling the runtime for Python
> > applications from the system Python on RHEL 6 and its derivatives.
> >
> > I thought I mentioned it on this list last year when I first wrote it,
> > but some messages I've seen recently suggest many folks haven't seen it
> > before.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> 
> Is it on the back of a fag packet or is there a link somewhere? :)

I assume it's
http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html

Regards

Antoine.




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