Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

[Pete Forman]

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> On 14/04/2014 14:51, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> If you're going to do that, why not just port your code to 3.x and
>>> be done with it? Who has the resources to put hours and hours of dev
>>> time into a 2.8?
>
> The people who haven't had enough time over the last eight years to
> plan their upgrade path to 3.x. Eight years comes from the date of the
> first message here https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/
> which was 21/03/2006, so feel free to come up with a different answer
> for the time span.

Would it help if we adopted a non-numeric name for this product to
support eXisting Python for those who were notified some years ago that
Python 2 would be superseded? How about Python XP?

I thought not ;-)

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Pete Forman