Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?
Damien Wyart
damien.wyart at free.fr
Thu Oct 24 09:29:43 EDT 2013
> I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be
> actually adopted by the Python community at large as their standard.
> Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not
> even bothered learning version 3.x. Why am I bothered by this? Because
> of lot of good libraries are still only for version 2.x, and there is
> no sign of their being updated for v3.x. I get the impression as if
> 3.x, despite being better and more advanced than 2.x from the
> technical point of view, is a bit of a letdown in terms of adoption.
Some Linux distributions will certainly switch to Python 3 by default,
sooner or later. Fedora has decided to do so for their 22 release:
http://lwn.net/Articles/571528/
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DW
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