The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 14 01:02:27 EDT 2017
On 14/09/2017 05:37, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 9/13/2017 2:44 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> Are there actually Py3 codebases?
>
> Let's think a bit. There is the Python half of the Python3 codebase,
> perhaps 400K. But we can discount that.
>
> Then there are all the Py compatible modules on PyPI, which is to say,
> most of the major one. How could not not notice those?
>
> One of them is a little project call Django. I believe that this is the
> one slated to be 3.x only in its 2.0 version.
>
> I believe at least one linux distribution uses Py 3 for its system python.
>
> A year ago, a producers of a Unicode-based app sold internationallly
> announce that their next version would be Py 3 only. When 3.3 came out
> with the new Unicode implementation, they developed a 3.3 version of the
> app. By 3.5, they realized that 3.3+ unicode made things much easier,
> wile maintaining the 2.7 version was painful by comparison. They asked
> their (non-programmer) customers if they already used the 3.x version or
> could install 3.x to run the 3.x version. 95% said yes to one of these.
> So they decided that the next version, early this year, would be 3.x
> only.
>
> Have you ever hear of a little startup called 'Instagram'? Earlier this
> year, they announce that they had about finished an 18 month process of
> switching most of their Python code to 3.x. They described in fair
> detail how they did it. Really impressive.
>
Not quite there yet but according to this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/6z6wst/twisted_is_93_ported_to_python_3/
a little project called Twisted is 93% ported to Python 3.
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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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