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

Steve Dower Steve.Dower at microsoft.com
Sat Dec 13 18:05:29 CET 2014

This is also my approach, and the one that I'm encouraging throughout Microsoft as we start putting out more Python packages for stuff.

Top-posted from my Windows Phone

From: Barry Warsaw<mailto:barry at python.org> Sent: ‎12/‎13/‎2014 7:19 To: python-dev at python.org<mailto:python-dev at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

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.

Cheers, -Barry

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