[Python-Dev] Migrating to Python 3: the python 3 install issue

[Brett Cannon]

Thanks for the info, Terry! Glad people are realizing that Python 3 is now
available widely enough that applications can seriously consider dropping
Python 2 support now. I still think 2016 is going to see this happen more
and more once the Linux distros make their switches to Python 3.

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 at 15:16 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On python-list, Chris Warrick reported (thread title):
> "The Nikola project is deprecating Python 2.7 (+2.x/3.x user survey
> results)"  This is for the November release, with 2.7 dropped in the
> next version next year. (Nikola is a cross-platform unicode-based app
> for building static websites and blogs from user-written templates and
> (marked-up) text files.   https://getnikola.com/ )
>
> Since users do not write code to use Nikola, the survey was about
> installation of Python 3.  At present, 1/2 have 3.x only, 1/3 2.x only,
> and 1/6 both.  (So much for 'nobody uses 3.x for real work'.)  Most of
> the 2.x only people are able and willing to install 3.x.
>
> https://getnikola.com/blog/env-survey-results-and-the-future-of-python-27.html
>
> When Stefan Behnel asked why they did not drop the hard-to-maintain 2.7
> version once they ported to 3.3, Chris answered
>
>  > We did it now because it all started with frustration with 2.7 [0].
>  > Also, doing it back in 2012/2013 would be problematic, because back
>  > then not all Linux distros had an easily installable Python 3 stack
>  > (and RHEL 7 still doesn’t have one in the default repos)
>  >
>  > [0]:
> http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/floss-decision-making-in-action.html
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
>
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