[Python-Dev] An example of Python 3 promotion attitude (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 20:43:29 EDT 2015

On Oct 7, 2015, at 7:12 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 6 October 2015 at 21:29, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote: Now I sometimes feel that there is not enough sentiment in python-dev to distance from such ideas. It is python-dev job to promote python3, but it's also python-dev job sometimes to point out that whatever helps in promoting the python ecosystem (e.g. in case of pypy is speed) is a good enough reason to do those things.

I wonder what are other people ideas about that. It's not generally python-dev's job to promote Python 3 either - folks are here for their own reasons, and that's largely a shared aim of making a better programming language and other tools for our own future use (whatever those use cases may be).

I concur. Our responsibilities are to make Python 3 into an effective tool that makes people want to adopt it and to be honest with anyone who asks us about the pros and cons of switching over.

Raymond

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