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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Oct 29 21:55:33 CEST 2010

On 10/29/2010 2:41 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:12:28AM -0700, geremy condra wrote:

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz

Let's take PyPI numbers as a proxy. There are ~8000 packages with a "Programming Language::Python" classifier. There are ~250 with "Programming Langauge::Python::3". Roughly speaking, we can say that is 3% of Python code which has been ported so far. Python 3.0 was released at the end of 2008, so people have had roughly 2 years to port, which comes up with 1.5% per year. Just my two cents: Just one further informational note about using pypi in this way for statistics... In the porting work we've done within Fedora, I've noticed that a lot of packages are python3 ready or even officially support python3 but the language classifier on pypi does not reflect this. Here's just a few since I looked them up when working on the python porting wiki pages: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Beaker/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycairo http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docutils

If you could (successfully) encourage the authors of such packages to update their PyPI classifiers, I and other Python 3 users would greatly appreciate it. That is aside from having better data for this and similar discussions.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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