[Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Dec 12 23:29:38 CET 2014

On 12/12/2014 1:24 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

However, my point was that just because the core libraries by usage are starting to roll out Python 3 support doesn't mean that things are "easy" or "convenient" yet. ... I suppose what I'm saying is that the long tail of libraries is far more valuable than it seems the Python3 zealots are giving it credit for. Please don't claim it's "easy" to move over just because merely most of the top 20 libraries have been moved over. :-/

I agree that we should refrain from characterizing the difficulty of other peoples' work. Conversions range from trivial to effectively impossible. What we can say is that a) each library conversion make conversion easier for the users of that library and b) the number of conversions continue to increase. I think some are trying to say that the number has reached a point where it is no longer fair to say that conversion is typically impossible.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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