On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 04:57:25 -0700, dufriz wrote: > I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be > actually adopted by the Python community at large as their standard.
Of course it will. Python 2.7 is the last of the 2 series. It will be given extended support, but eventually -- probably another five years or so -- it will be no longer supported, just like Python 1.5 is no longer supported. > Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even > bothered learning version 3.x. It's not like the differences are hard to learn. Even a mediocre programmer can learn the differences in semantics and syntax in about five minutes -- if you remember "print is a function", you're about half- way there. Differences to the standard library are more extensive, but still easy to learn. > Why am I bothered by this? Because of lot > of good libraries are still only for version 2.x, and there is no sign > of their being updated for v3.x. What do you call a "lot"? A million? Ten? > I get the impression as if 3.x, despite > being better and more advanced than 2.x from the technical point of > view, is a bit of a letdown in terms of adoption. Don't panic, the plan was always that the migration from 2 to 3 would take about a decade. We're only half-way through it, and the migration is proceeding according to plan: - the majority of packages on PyPI now support Python 3, so the "Wall of Shame" is now renamed the "Wall of Superpowers": https://python3wos.appspot.com/ - big, important projects like numpy, scipy, django, zope, docutils etc. now have either full Python 3 support, partial support, or are actively working on it - As of June this year, 39 of the top 50 downloaded projects from PyPI had Python 3 support: http://py3ksupport.appspot.com/ - It's not just CPython, other implementations like Nuitika, PyPy and Cython have partial or full support for Python 3. So don't worry about it. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
