On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aahz wrote: >> I believe that it would be a shame and a disservice to Python if there >> were a large proportion of the Python community that discouraged the use >> of 3.0; I also believe it would be a shame and a disservice to Python if >> you (and other people) tell conservatives like me that we should keep our >> mouths shut.
I hope I am not perceived as telling you to keep your mouth shut. I am merely hoping that you will decide for yourself after having heard me out. > I don't think being honest about the situation is going to hurt anything > in the long run. There are lots of advantages to 3.0, but also plenty of > good reasons to stick with 2.x as well. > > At this point in time, my own recommendation would be that if someone > doesn't have time to do a proper evaluation of the situation (talking > production development here, not "learning for fun"), then I would > probably still point them at 2.5. That recommendation will probably > change to 2.6 in a couple of months (since it usually takes a few months > after a release for the rest of the Python ecosystem to catch up with a > new 2.x release). > > If they have the time though, my recommendation would be for them to do > their *own* evaluation, looking both at things that favour 3.0 like > Unicode handling and general developer convenience, as well as the > things that currently favour 2.x like IO speed and availability of 3rd > party libraries. That sounds right. I just heard (via Martin) that PEP 3131 (Unicode letters in identifiers) is already a big hit in Japan. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com