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[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

Ryan Birmingham rainventions at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 11:23:23 EST 2017 
It's certainly an interesting transition period.
I'm not sure that the community is quite ready to just drop 2.7, but we
could take a hint from angular <https://angularjs.org/>'s solution to this
issue and use small descriptions to guide more people to 3.6 rather than
2.7, then move to 2.7 being substantially smaller, then eventually to
dropping 2.7.

-Ryan Birmingham

On 26 January 2017 at 11:11, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The download button of https://www.python.org/ currently gives the
> choice between Python 2.7 and 3.6. I read more and more articles
> saying that we reached a point where Python 3 became more popular than
> Python 2, Python 3 has now enough new features to convince developers,
> etc.
>
> Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show
> Python 3.6 *by default*?
>
> For example, I expect a single big [DOWNLOAD] button which would start
> the download of Python 3.6 for my platform.
>
> If we cannot agree on hiding Python 2 by default, maybe we can at
> least replace the big [DOWNLOAD] button of Python 2 with a smaller
> button or replace it with a link to a different download page?
>
> Latest news: Django 2.0 and Pyramid 2.0 will simply drop Python 2 support.
>
> Victor
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