On 10/1/2015 12:26 PM, Chris Warrick wrote:
The Nikola developers decided to deprecate Python 2.7 support. Starting with v7.7.2, Nikola will display a warning if Python 2.7 is used (but it will still be fully supported). In early 2016, Nikola v8.0.0 will come out, and that release will not support Python 2.7 officially.
How sane ;-)
The decision was made on the basis of a user survey, with 138 participants. The vast majority of them claimed that they either use Python 3 already, or can switch really easily.
From the survey and description below, 'using Python 3' means having Python 3 installed, not writing Python 3 code. Correct?
I must admit that I am surprised that even 7% of those who bothered to answer would claim that they would refuse to even install Py 3.
> The main reason for the
switch was the fact that supporting both requires a lot of extra effort, especially because Python 2.7’s Unicode support is abysmal.
2.7 unicode bug-fixing pretty much ended a couple of years ago or so. Remaining bugs either have or eventually will be closed as fixed in 3.x.
Full results: https://getnikola.com/blog/env-survey-results-and-the-future-of-python-27.html What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn Jupyter (IPython) Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
