[Python-Dev] On porting to Python 3 as the answer

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 23.03.14 17:22, schrieb Guido van Rossum:
> At Dropbox I work with a large group of very capable developers on
> several large code bases that are currently in 2.7. We are constantly
> changing our code to make it more secure (there are several teams
> specifically in charge of that). And yet porting to Python 3 is
> completely out of scope, for a variety of reasons.
> 
> Please stop your wishful thinking.

I can stop expressing it; I don't think I can stop wishing it :-)

If it's really unrealistic that Dropbox will ever port the code
to Python 3, would you then think that Python 3 is a doomed project,
since it won't ever see significant usage?

Regards,
Martin