[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Oct 28 18:32:55 CEST 2010

Am 28.10.2010 18:07, schrieb lutz at rmi.net:

Kristj?n Valur J?nsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:

James Y Knight said: The python community has already decided many times over that Python2 is dead and Python3 is the future

But the patient is very much alive and kicking, no matter what the good doctor declares. Python 2.x is in widespread use, with gazillion lines of .py code. In, there is another gazillion lines of .c and .cpp code both in extensions and embedding applications in use. I?m quite happy with the community at large moving its development focus to 3.x but it is a bit harsh to deprive those left behind of the keys to the old house. Exactly. Has anyone here analyzed download stats on py.org lately? Please feel free to prove me wrong, but by my reckoning, and at least for Windows MSI installer files, people are still downloading Python 2.X roughly 3 to 4 times more often than Python 3.X today, some 2 years after 3.X's release.

This doesn't worry me too much. Just look at how long it usually takes for 2.(x+1) to actually get used over 2.x, or even 2.(x-1) -- and it's fairly obvious that this time will be a bit longer for 2.x -> 3.x.

Georg

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