[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 at 08:39 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 January 2017 at 16:11, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show
> > Python 3.6 *by default*?
>
> Actually, looking back at the "Download" dropdown for Windows, I see
>
> Python 3.6.0    Python 2.7.13
>
> That's not really that bad (I recalled it being worse) - Python 3 is
> on the left, which I'd interpret as "first", but otherwise the choices
> are pretty equal.
>
> The problem is that because it's 32-bit, I never really look at these
> options, I always go straight to "Other downloads", which is in a
> *really* weird order - 3.5.3, then 3.5.3rc1, then 3.6.0, then 2.7.13,
> ... "Full list of downloads" isn't much better - 3.4.6, 3.5.3, 3.6.0,
> 2.7.13, 3.4.5, ...
>
> +1 on tidying up, and consistently showing an order 3.6.0, 2.7.13,
> "other older versions". No matter where people end up, they should
> always see 3.6 as the first option, with 2.7 clearly available as "the
> other one".
>
> +0 on de-emphasising 2.7 still further. I'm in favour, and I think
> that people who need 2.7 in practice probably need it for
> compatibility with other parts of their system and so should likely be
> getting it from their vendor/distro rather than python.org.
>
> +1 on making the main download for Windows 64-bit.
>

+1 to what Paul proposes.
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