The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion (was "I strongly dislike Python 3")

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Sun Jul 4 19:58:04 EDT 2010


On 7/4/2010 1:20 PM, sturlamolden wrote:
> On 2 Jul, 21:07, John Nagle<na... at animats.com>  wrote:
>
>> http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/12/python-30-whats-the-point/
>
> He is right on. The only thing Python 3k will do for me, is break all
> my code and be incompatible with all extension modules I need. "What's
> the point?" indeed.

     Exactly.

     The "incompatible with all extension modules I need" part
is the problem right now.  A good first step would be to
identify the top 5 or 10 modules that are blocking a move to
Python 3 by major projects with many users.

				John Nagle




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