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Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Oct 23 08:35:53 EDT 2013 
On 23/10/2013 12:57, dufriz at gmail.com wrote:
> Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version 3.x.

The changes aren't large enough to worry a Python programmer so 
effectively there's nothing to learn, other than how to run 2to3.

> ...there is no sign of their being updated for v3.x.

Could have fooled me.  The number is growing all the time.  The biggest 
problem is likely (IMHO) to be the sheer size of the code base and 
limitations on manpower.

> 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.

I agree with this technical aspect, other than the disastrous flexible 
string representation, which has been repeatedly shot to pieces by, er, 
one idiot :)  As for adaption we'll get there so please don't do a 
Captain Mainwearing[1] and panic.  People should also be pursuaded by 
watching this from Brett Cannon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebyz66jPyJg

Just my 2 pence worth.

[1] From the extremely popular BBC TV series "Dad's Army" of the late 
60s and 70s.

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Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence
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