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Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Sat Dec 13 10:07:10 EST 2014 
"Giampaolo Rodola'" <g.rodola at gmail.com>:

> What I'm saying is that for a very long time a considerable number of
> libraries haven't been ported to python 3

Ok, that's at least half the fault of the library developers.

> Names such as Twisted, gevent, eventlet, python-daemon and paramiko
> means that literally hundreds of thousands of users cannot even think
> about migrating *right now*: they're just stuck.

I *have* always been very suspicious of third-party libraries and
platforms. The comes-with-batteries approach has been enough for my
needs.

> My perception is that for way too long Python 3 was kind of ignored by
> some of the most important library vendors and it (partially) still
> is, and that's what is affecting Python 3 adoption the most.

Maybe. I'm not afraid of the Python 3 transition, but it's not current
yet. I'm running a Python 3 application at home. At work, Python 2.3 is
the version in one environment, Python 2.6 in another. When Python 3.x
becomes the least common denominator, we'll build on that. Some other
teams have already made the jump.


Marko
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