the list on PyPI is far from complete [LWN.net]

the list on PyPI is far from complete

Posted Feb 9, 2011 22:30 UTC (Wed) by zuki (subscriber, #41808)
Parent article: Moving to Python 3

Packages appear as Python compatible there only if the developers
remember to add the right classifier (Programming Language::Python::3).
Many don't. E.g. decorator has been py3 compatible for years. The
same is true for lots of other packages.

The major packages which kept a lot of software back, were numpy and
scipy. But numpy officially supports python 3, and scipy, currently in -rc, will soon.

There's no need to have majority of packages supporting python 3, just a few percent of the most important ones are enough. It seems that we are quite
close to this amount.

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the list on PyPI is far from complete

Posted Feb 10, 2011 3:36 UTC (Thu) by maney (subscriber, #12630) [Link]

Ah, the word processor delusion. You know how that goes: sure, no one uses more than 10% of the features that MS Word provides; but someone uses each of them (or darned near), so a replacement that only covers the most-used 10% will not appeal to a majority of users.

All statistics in this post were made up or borrowed from half-remembered sources who almost certainly made them up. Nevertheless, MS Word is still the 800 pound gorilla...