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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sat Dec 13 18:08:59 CET 2014

On Dec 13, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Dec 13, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:

For what it’s worth, I almost exclusively write 2/3 compatible code (and that’s with the “easy” subset of 2.6+ and either 3.2+ or 3.3+) and doing so does make the language far less fun for me than when I was writing 2.x only code. For myself, the way I'd put it is: With the libraries I maintain, I generally write Python 2/3 compatible code, targeting Python 2.7 and 3.4, with 2.6, 3.3, and 3.2 support as bonuses, although I will not contort too much to support those older versions. Doing so does make the language far less fun for me than when I am writing 3.x only code. All applications I write in pure Python 3, targeting Python 3.4, unless my dependencies are not all available in Python 3, or I haven't yet had the cycles/resources to port to Python 3. Writing and maintaining applications in Python 2 is far less fun than doing so in Python 3.

Yea that’s not unlike me in that. I don’t write many applications where I have a choice of runtime. Most of what I write tends to be libraries or applications for work where we’re using 2.7 or pip itself where if we dropped 2.7 or 2.6 support people would be after us with pitchforks.

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