[Tutor] Python version 2.7 or 3.0

[Alan Gauld]

On 12/03/13 14:20, Mike Nickey wrote:

> I'm seeing on StackOverflow that 2.7 is the standard for those that have
> libraries that haven't been ported to 3.1.2 yet. Does this mean that 2.7
> is dead or dying? Is this just a well managed marketing campaign?

Like any software the latest version will eventually predominate. But 
since many libraries have not been ported to v3 yet 2.7 is still very 
much alive and still being supported. I seem to recall it being stated 
that 2.7 is the last of the v2 Python family but that it will be 
receiving updates/fixes for some time yet.

It's not a marketing campaign but the normal process of migrating from 
one version to a newer, incompatible, version.

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Alan G
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