[Python-Dev] An example of Python 3 promotion attitude

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 07:36 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2015 4:31 AM, "Maciej Fijalkowski" <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There was a discussion a while ago about python 3 and the attitude on
> > social media and there was a lack of examples. Here is one example:
> >
> >
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3nl5ut/ninite_the_popular_website_to_install_essential/
> >
> > According to some people, it is everybodys job to promote python 3 and
> > force people to upgrade. This is really not something I enjoy (people
> > telling me pypy should promote python 3 - it's not really our job).
>
> I'm not a core dev so I don't really have a dog in this fight (except that
> I do like python 3 the language), but: in the interests of having a more
> productive discussion, can you elaborate on what specifically you found
> frustrating about that link? It seems to be a page of people talking in a
> measured way about the trade offs between python 2 and python 3. It looked
> to me like probably the majority opinion expressed was that for the
> poster's personal uses python 3 was superior for specific reasons that they
> described, but people generally seemed very respectful and open to the
> possibility that their experience wasn't universal. Your email had me
> expecting something very different, so I'm wondering what I'm missing.
>

I'm in the same position as Nathaniel. I was expecting a flood of comments
yelling that not supporting Python 3 was horrible and they should be burned
at the stake for heresy or something. Instead I found very reasonable
responses to questions and only 2 people who went overboard, both of whom
admitted they were wrong when their arguments were shown to be extreme or
invalid. While I can imagine the kind of responses that Glyph was talking
about at the language summit I don't quite see how this is an example of
that.
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