On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:01 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> My take from all this is that overall, Python 3 take-up is probably >> around 10% of all Python users... > > Really? That low? Wow.
Well, that's based on a guess that for every Python programmer you see talking on the Internet, on Stackoverflow, Usenet, etc. there are probably ten or so who are invisible to us. They work a nominally 9 to 5 government or corporate job programming in Python, are forbidden to install packages which aren't approved by IT, and don't even have access to Stackoverflow let alone have time to chew the fat here. Those folks, I expect, are almost all using Python 2.6 or 2.7, with a small minority on even older versions. Some small percentage of them will still be using Python 2 in 20 years time, just as there are a small minority of people still using Python 1.5 today. > Jessie's default should be 2.7, at least. Wheezy shipped 2.7, too; > it's only Squeeze (now out of support) that didn't ship any 2.7.x > Python. Are you sure you can't at least upgrade to 2.7? I'm not sure, I'm not actively involved in that specific project. All I know is that the guys are always complaining about Jessie, and that they're using 2.6. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list