Even 2.6 is going to be a "bit new" for a while. For example numpy won't build with it at all until the next release (1.3).
mick On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:01, Daniel Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had thought of that right after I sent the email - obviously I can't > switch until all the libraries I use are supported (so pygtk, > matplotlib, numpy and scipy at a minimum). > > 2008/12/5 David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> 2008/12/4 Daniel Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Has anyone used it yet? Whats it like? Who's planning on moving from 2.x? >>> >> >> It's unlikely that it will see much uptake for the coming months if >> not years, and probably not by many companies until they are forced to >> (i.e. 2.x is no longer getting maintained). >> >>> I'm about to start writing some Python code for extracting data from >>> log files for reliability testing in work, but I'll be doing it in >>> Python 2.6, so I'm curious if other people are going to switch >>> immediately or stick with 2.6 for a while longer. I intend on checking >>> out 3.0 fairly soon (over the weekend maybe) and switching for >>> personal projects. >> >> I'd suggest sticking to 2.x for the time being, even for hobby type >> code, since at the present time practically none of the third party >> libs have 3.0 support, never mind being tested and stable. >> >>> >>> On a side note, how does execution performance of 3.0 compare to 2.6? >>> (Not that its an issue for me, but I am curious) >> >> Significantly slower for some operations, particularly on integers. As >> noted in the 3.0 What's New document, 3.0 is about 10% slower running >> PyStone (this is part of the stdlib as test.pystone apparently). >> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Kersten. >>> Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985. >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Daniel Kersten. > Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
