[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

[Paul Moore]

On 26 January 2017 at 16:11, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> The download button of https://www.python.org/ currently gives the
> choice between Python 2.7 and 3.6. I read more and more articles
> saying that we reached a point where Python 3 became more popular than
> Python 2, Python 3 has now enough new features to convince developers,
> etc.
>
> Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show
> Python 3.6 *by default*?
>
> For example, I expect a single big [DOWNLOAD] button which would start
> the download of Python 3.6 for my platform.

+1

On a similar note, I always get caught out by the fact that the
Windows default download is the 32-bit version. Are we not yet at a
point where a sufficient majority of users have 64-bit machines, and
32-bit should be seen as a "specialist" choice?

Paul