[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final (original) (raw)

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Thu Dec 4 22:00:46 CET 2008

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:20:34 +0000, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

2008/12/4 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>: [snip]

One thing I'd like to see more clearly stated is that there's no reason NOT to use Python 3.0 for new code. I don't think that message has really come across yet - in spite of the warnings being all about compatibility issues, no-one has stressed the simple point that if your code is new, it doesn't have compatibility concerns!

New code that wouldn't be more easily written with a dependency on a library that hasn't been ported, you mean.

Although beyond that, there may be reasons (for example, the significant performance degradation in the I/O library currently being discussed on python-list).

Jean-Paul

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