On 28/10/2010 13:20, R. David Murray wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:07:50 -0000, l...@rmi.net wrote:
I hope 3.X use expands; in fact, I've bet the future of at
least one book on it. And even 1/4 of new users seems a
large enough subset to care about too. But one can't help
but wonder if most of the development community is focused
on some imaginary future user base, at the expense of the
much larger current user base. Then again, there's still
plenty of Fortran77 code out there, so...
Given the existing rate of Python3 adoption (which by the signs we see in
the tracker is increasing),
The Wing IDE guys get a lot of feedback from the "report issue" dialog
that is built in to the IDE. This sends information to them which
includes which version of Python the user is working with. They are
seeing an ever increasing proportion number of users working with Python
3 (I don't have numbers though).
All the best,
Michael Foord
you can hardly call the user base imaginary.
Further, Python development (and development in general!) is *always*
focused on a "future user base" in the sense you are using it, not the
"current user base". That's pretty much part of the definition of
development :)
But the reality is that almost all those Python2 users are future Python3
users, so they *are* the future user base. And like Georg said, as far
as we can see Python3 uptake is pretty much right on the schedule that
was predicted when it was first released.
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