Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-12 Thread LightDot
Also, python 2.6.5 is in RHEL 6 / SL 6 / CentOS 6, which many linux hosting/VPS companies will be using for years to come.

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-12 Thread pbreit
I suspect 2.6 is going to be popular for some time since that's what's in the current Ubuntu LTS (10.04).

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-12 Thread Ross Peoples
I know that Python 2.5 is the officially supported Python version of web2py, but I've been coding all of my stuff with the assumption that this will eventually change to Python 2.6, or even 2.7. I have applications running on both 2.6 and 2.7 in production. But since I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Serve

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread cjrh
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:29:19 AM UTC+2, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > P3 needs some killer feature to motivate a migration, seems to me. > Especially when we're hearing from web2py users who need/want to stick with > 2.4… > I think there are *many* Pythonistas with that view. I suppose that

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Jul 11, 2011, at 1:38 PM, cjrh wrote: > I just realized you asked about Python 3 not 3.2! The stuff I posted was the > delta from 3.1 to 3.2 only. To see what changes from 2 to 3, read here > (isn't too long, worth skimming at the very least): > http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.ht

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread cjrh
I just realized you asked about Python *3* not 3.2! The stuff I posted was the delta from 3.1 to 3.2 only. To see what changes from 2 to 3, read here (isn't too long, worth skimming at the very least): http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread cjrh
Oh, I also watched a video from PyCon: the dictionary-based logging system is supposed to be the final word on how to do Python logging for all apps and users. Apparently there were a lot of custom-made in-house logging systems for many different projects, and they tried to make one to replace

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread cjrh
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2.1/ I highlighted the ones I am interested in below: - numerous improvements to the unittest module - PEP 3147 , support for .pyc repository directories - PEP 3149

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Francisco Costa wrote: > > I read this on the announcement of the latest Python release: > http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2.1/ > > "Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only receive > bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only

Re: [web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread Ovidio Marinho
Hello Men's, still do not control everything that can offer web2py with Python 2.7, and I think we can not worry about versions, the important features are present, we need to master well web2py, python Guido cares about him. Ovidio Marinho Falcao Neto ovidio...@gmail.com

[web2py] Python 3 and the future of web2py

2011-07-11 Thread Francisco Costa
I read this on the announcement of the latest Python release: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2.1/ "Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only." Does web2py have any plans to migrate to Python 3.x now that