On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 07:36 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Oct 6, 2015 4:31 AM, "Maciej Fijalkowski" <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > There was a discussion a while ago about python 3 and the attitude on > > social media and there was a lack of examples. Here is one example: > > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3nl5ut/ninite_the_popular_website_to_install_essential/ > > > > According to some people, it is everybodys job to promote python 3 and > > force people to upgrade. This is really not something I enjoy (people > > telling me pypy should promote python 3 - it's not really our job). > > I'm not a core dev so I don't really have a dog in this fight (except that > I do like python 3 the language), but: in the interests of having a more > productive discussion, can you elaborate on what specifically you found > frustrating about that link? It seems to be a page of people talking in a > measured way about the trade offs between python 2 and python 3. It looked > to me like probably the majority opinion expressed was that for the > poster's personal uses python 3 was superior for specific reasons that they > described, but people generally seemed very respectful and open to the > possibility that their experience wasn't universal. Your email had me > expecting something very different, so I'm wondering what I'm missing. >
I'm in the same position as Nathaniel. I was expecting a flood of comments yelling that not supporting Python 3 was horrible and they should be burned at the stake for heresy or something. Instead I found very reasonable responses to questions and only 2 people who went overboard, both of whom admitted they were wrong when their arguments were shown to be extreme or invalid. While I can imagine the kind of responses that Glyph was talking about at the language summit I don't quite see how this is an example of that.
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