Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 09/11/2017 06:00 AM, Pavol Lisy wrote: >> Debian follows PEP 394, which recommends that "python" point to python2, >> and I don't see that changing any time soon (certainly not before RHEL >> includes python3 by default. > > Which part of third party ecosystem surrounding Python 3 is not (and

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 09/11/2017 01:47 AM, Stephan Houben wrote: > Op 2017-09-10, Marko Rauhamaa schreef : >> Stephan Houben : >>> >>> Why not bundle the Python interpreter with your application? >>> It seems to work for Windows developers... >> >> I've seen that done

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 09/10/2017 03:25 AM, Leam Hall wrote: > From a non-rpm perspective Python 3.6.2 compiles nicely on CentOS 6. > Once compiled it seems easy to use pip3 to install stuff without > trampling on the OS's Python 2 install. In the last place I worked, our servers usually did not have compilers

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-11 Thread Matt Ruffalo
On 2017-09-10 05:42, Chris Warrick wrote: > > RHEL’s release process starts at forking a recent Fedora release. It > wouldn’t make much sense for them to undo the Python 3 progress that > happened over the past few years in Fedora — including dnf, an > improved package manager written in Python 3.

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 11 September 2017 at 13:07, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Fortunately, it's not that hard to type "python3" all the time. OS >> distributions can progressively shift to using that name, and then >>

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-11 Thread Paul Moore
On 11 September 2017 at 13:07, Chris Angelico wrote: > Fortunately, it's not that hard to type "python3" all the time. OS > distributions can progressively shift to using that name, and then > eventually not ship a Py2 until/unless something depends on it, all > without losing

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-11 Thread Pavol Lisy
On 9/11/17, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 2017-09-10 09:05, INADA Naoki wrote: >> I saw encouraging tweet from Kenneth Reitz. >> >> https://twitter.com/kennethreitz/status/902028601893294081/photo/1 >> >> On Heroku, most people choose Python 3! >> I know, it's because Python 3 is the

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-10 Thread Stephan Houben
Op 2017-09-10, Marko Rauhamaa schreef : > As an application developer, I can't make the customers depend on EPEL. > It's Python2 until the distro comes with Python3. Why not bundle the Python interpreter with your application? It seems to work for Windows developers... Stephan

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-10 Thread Chris Warrick
On 10 September 2017 at 11:24, Leam Hall wrote: > On 09/10/2017 04:19 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: >> >> On 10 September 2017 at 09:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> >>> INADA Naoki : >>> I can't wait Python 3 is the default Python of

People choosing Python 3

2017-09-10 Thread INADA Naoki
I saw encouraging tweet from Kenneth Reitz. https://twitter.com/kennethreitz/status/902028601893294081/photo/1 On Heroku, most people choose Python 3! I know, it's because Python 3 is the default Python on Heroku. I can't wait Python 3 is the default Python of Red Hat, and "python" command

Re: Choosing Python

2007-03-19 Thread John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the many things I like about Ada is that it is the same wherever you use it. Python seems to be that way too. Java started out that way. It was the intention for Java to be more portable than it is. I have heard that Java was released before the

RE: Choosing Python

2007-03-19 Thread Sells, Fred
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:22 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Choosing Python The choice is made. The school where I teach has finally made its decision to teach Python first.For several years, we have been teaching Java first, and before that, C++. I introduced Python

Re: Choosing Python

2007-03-19 Thread kyosohma
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Choosing Python The choice is made. The school where I teach has finally made its decision to teach Python first.For several years, we have been

Choosing Python

2007-03-18 Thread adaworks
The choice is made. The school where I teach has finally made its decision to teach Python first.For several years, we have been teaching Java first, and before that, C++. I introduced Python in one of my courses and got a lot of flak from some of the other faculty. I also introduced Ruby,

Re: Choosing Python

2007-03-18 Thread adaworks
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