I think the question average python users have is "What's in it for me?". While the guts have undergone lots of changes, from the outside it is mostly perceived as the unicode-by-default and the print function. As per Bret's talk at pycon [1], speed is roughly the same, which is great, considering all the new stuff, but not a compelling reason to change for Joe Programmer. Joe will probably consider PyPy because "moar speez" is an easy sell, though.
In a way, python3 is victim of the success of python2. Inertia is a powerful force, and honestly, most of the time python2 just works (easy to write, easy to modify, fast enough). Maybe it's just a marketing problem, and more examples of "things you can only do with python3" are needed. Or maybe for all the good changes already there, it still needs a killer feature, i.e. the proverbial elevator pitch, that sets it apart from its older brother. Alfredo [1] http://pyvideo.org/video/1730/python-33-trust-me-its-better-than-27 _______________________________________________ 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
