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From: Nobody on 30 Jan 2010 11:29
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:56:10 -0800, John Nagle wrote:

> Arguably, Python 3 has been rejected by the market.

Arguably, Python 3 has not yet been accepted by the market.

Part of it is down to a catch-22: applications won't use Python 3 if the
libraries on which they depend don't support it, and support for Python 3
by libraries will be influenced by the perceived demand.

OTOH, it's safe to assume that there will remain areas where Python 2 is
preferred. Primarily Unix scripting, where most data is byte strings with
the encoding either unknown or irrelevant. That alone will ensure that
Python 2 is alive and well even as Python 4 is released. Even if
python.org doesn't support Python 2, it's a safe bet that e.g. ActiveState
will.

From: Kevin Walzer on 30 Jan 2010 11:45
On 1/30/10 11:29 AM, Nobody wrote:
>
> Arguably, Python 3 has not yet been accepted by the market.
>
> Part of it is down to a catch-22: applications won't use Python 3 if the
> libraries on which they depend don't support it, and support for Python 3
> by libraries will be influenced by the perceived demand.

This is part of my reason for not yet moving to Python 3--several
libraries that I will need do not currently support Python 3.

--
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
From: Blog on 30 Jan 2010 13:09
On 1/30/2010 10:06 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Blog<Blogtest77(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (Debian does ship with 2.5, but the next major release "sid' is due
>> out in Q2)
>
> Sid is the perpetual development playground (“unstable”), never released
> as a suite, but a proving ground for packages to determine their fitness
> for going to the next level of testing.
>
> The next-to-be-released suite is Squeeze (currently “testing”), which
> has Python 2.5 (the default 'python') and Python 2.6.
>

Oops! My bad! I actually meant Squeeze.

Thanks for catching the "typo".

From: Anssi Saari on 1 Feb 2010 18:08
Blog <Blogtest77(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Where did you come up with that information? Almost all of the major
> distros ship with 2.6.x - CentOS, OpenSuSe, Ubuntu, Fedora. (Debian
> does ship with 2.5, but the next major release "sid' is due out in Q2)

I don't see Python 2.6 in my CentOS 5.4 installation. All I see is
2.4. Same as RHEL and I'd say that's a fairly major distribution too.
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