As of today python 3 is used almost exclusively in schools. Do you know of any large company that uses Python 3? I do not. But I know many large companies that use Python 2, including banks.
On Monday, 9 November 2015 01:36:40 UTC-6, Remco Boerma wrote: > > Great one Alex. > > While searching for web2py and python3 the first result i got was this > <https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/31ai10/web2py_python3/>. > > >> Hi...I m total beginner in python with elastic search also Unicode ... I >> am looking for a wonderful framework & was keen on web2py..but just >> happened to read that its not compatible with python 3.. >> >> Pl guide me abt this issue & in selecting framework >> >> With regards to all, >> > > I've been asked to start a new internship-company for a project i'm > involved in. And I so want to take those boys and girls on the web2py path, > but to ask of those new-to-the-market to invest in a legacy language (2020 > is only 4 years from now) is something that feels odd to me. Especially > since i know the power and grace of web2py. > > I know the subject has been debated and debated but for the sake of these > students (and these are not the high university kind, but rather the > ground-work and getting-stuff-done folks) i would kindly ask to take the > future into consideration as well as our marketing because web2py is simply > droped out of the equation because of py2. I would love to teach those kids > web2py and be future proof. Many schools already teach things from a > hundred years ago, let's not do that in IT as well. > > Thank your for considering. > > Op vrijdag 6 november 2015 23:57:33 UTC+1 schreef Alex: >> >> web2py for python 3 would be great. I hope it comes rather sooner than >> later. I'd love to use python 3, no more str <-> unicode nonsense (which >> already caused many issues and wasted time for me), type hints (seems to >> have good support in PyCharm) and other new features. I think the current >> situation could also scare away potential new users when they see that >> web2py does not support python 3. >> >> pyDAL seems to be already compatible with python 3. Is it not possible to >> make the remaining parts also compatible or are there completely new >> concepts planned? I for one would completely remove the FORM code - it's >> nice and easy to get something up and running but difficult to style (no >> clear separation of backend/frontend) and extend. I'm using knockout (I >> guess any data binding js lib will do fine) which is very flexible and easy >> to understand. That should be the preferred way to do forms and recommended >> in the book. But that's just my opinion. No more FORM would mean less code >> to port to python 3 ;) >> >> Alex >> >> On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 4:37:56 PM UTC+1, Ramos wrote: >>> >>> @massimo >>> When will it be available ? >>> >>> >>> 2015-11-04 14:38 GMT+00:00 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo....@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> There will be a new framework similar to web2py for python 3. web2py >>>> has to be backward compatible and it is pointless to port it to python 3. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 06:25:40 UTC-6, Jim Gregory wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I know this has come up in the past, but it hasn't been asked in a >>>>> while. >>>>> >>>>> Is there ever going to be a usable and maintained Python3-compatible >>>>> fork of web2py? >>>>> >>>>> The latest edition of Fedora now ships with Python3 by default. It's >>>>> the default version used in Django's tutorial. >>>>> >>>>> I'm not using Python3 now, but I can see the day when I inevitably >>>>> will. I don't want to invest the time in a framework if I know I'll have >>>>> to >>>>> abandon it later. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Resources: >>>> - http://web2py.com >>>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >>>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >>>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
