[Python-Dev] General Q&A regarding Python 3, adoption etc. (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jan 7 00:44:41 CET 2014

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:25:12 +0000 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

On 06/01/2014 23:16, Nick Coghlan wrote: > For anyone that isn't already aware, I wrote a Q & A about Python 3 last > year (in response to an article about how we should have fixed the GIL > instead of Unicode), and I've updated it extensively over the past > several days due to Alex's misunderstanding of the objectives for Python > 3.4 as well as Armin's latest piece on the increased difficulties in > writing wire protocol handling code. > > The two main additions I currently have planned are a question > specifically about the state of the WSGI protocol (it works, but it an > error prone way), as well as one on what I'd like to see as the next > steps in encouraging Python 3 adoption now that we're within 18 months > of the planned date for 2.7 to enter security fix only mode (which > involve encouraging community workshops to switch to teaching Python 3.4 > initially, with Python 2.7 as an optional follow up, helping Ubuntu & > Fedora with their transitions to Py3 by default, bringing 3.5 closer to > parity with Python 2 for wire protocol development, and, on the Red > Hat/Fedora side, helping to encourage the adoption of software > collections as a mechanism for decoupling the runtime for Python > applications from the system Python on RHEL 6 and its derivatives. > > I thought I mentioned it on this list last year when I first wrote it, > but some messages I've seen recently suggest many folks haven't seen it > before. > > Cheers, > Nick. >

Is it on the back of a fag packet or is there a link somewhere? :)

I assume it's http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html

Regards

Antoine.

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