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If history is any indication...

Posted Dec 11, 2008 7:10 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Python 2 now stable by ncm
Parent article: Python 3 is out - now what?

Library writers are happy to jump to new version of any language. Months after python 2.5 was released first "python 2.5 only" libraries started to appear - and I fail to see why python 3.0 will be any different. I certainly will not switch all my scripts to python 3.0 right away but if I'll start anything new today - I'll do it with python 3.0: why feel the pain of incompatible switch down the road if you can start with newer version from the beginning?


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Posted Dec 17, 2008 7:09 UTC (Wed) by kbob (guest, #1770) [Link]

More importantly, why would you want to keep living with Python 2.0's warts? Pythonists are much more sensitive to issues of cleanliness than programmers of most languages *cough*Perl*cough*, so I expect the migration to happen pretty quickly.

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