[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Nov 3 18:35:57 CET 2009

Arc Riley <arcriley gmail.com> writes:

+1 on ending with 2.6.I'm the maintainer of 3rd party Python 3-only packages and have ported a few modules that we needed with some help from the 2to3 tool.  It's really not a big deal - and Py3 really is a massive improvement. The main thing holding back the community are lazy and/or obstinate package maintainers.  If they spent half the time they've put into complaining about Py3 into actually working to upgrade their code they'd be done now.

One thing you could do is explain (do you have a blog?) how Py3 is a massive improvement for you as a developer and package maintainer. We core developers obviously agree that py3k is better than 2.x, but the same opinion coming from a third-party developer would carry a different weight.

Regards

Antoine.

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