Quotes of the week

[Posted December 5, 2013 by n8willis]

"Please upgrade to Pro to use this feature." "We have discontinued the Pro version. The free version remains available." Yay, closed source.

— Stephen Gadsby

At this point I'm willing to say I'm happy with how Python 3 has turned out and how the community has supported it. Python 3.3 was a great release and I think Python 3.4 will be as well. I see no reason to think that the language and community's forward momentum will not continue, leading to a day where Python 2 only exists for people stuck on RHEL. =)

— Brett Cannon

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Posted Dec 5, 2013 11:28 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link] (2 responses)

While the "for people stuck on RHEL" comment was quite the turn of a phrase... and it did indeed make me chuckle... the truth is that Python 3.3 *IS AVAILABLE* in RHEL 6. What, you didn't know that? Ok, it isn't the default but still... it is one of the optional packages that is part of their relatively new "Software Collections" effort.

Here's the Software Collections release notes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Ha...

Available in Software Collections: mariadb55, mysql55, nodjs010, perl516, php54, postresql92, python27, python33, and ruby193

Don't use RHEL... but a clone instead? While I don't think CentOS has gotten around to figuring out Software Collections and packaging them up, Scientific Linux released them last month without much fanfare... and they are fairly difficult to find on their website. Here's a URL for anyone who cares:

http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/exter...

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Posted Dec 11, 2013 16:13 UTC (Wed) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] (1 responses)

The problem isn't RHEL 6, which came out a mere 3 years ago, the problem is RHEL 5, which came out more than a year before Python 3, and will be supported until 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Li...

Enterprise OS are annoying for people who develop software. :P

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Posted Dec 11, 2013 16:57 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Only if your customer insists on using RHEL 5. I believe there are Python 3 packages for RHEL 5 anyways...it's not like they'd conflict with the system. It's the libraries you're usually left chasing down though :( .

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Posted Dec 5, 2013 23:04 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

Just curious, what software was Stephen Gadsby referring to when he encountered that issue? (I didn't read through his Twitter posts to find out more, and besides, I abandoned my Twitter account and will likely never use it again—too risky.)

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Posted Dec 6, 2013 14:58 UTC (Fri) by kotnik (subscriber, #57300) [Link]

"I think it's a testament to the basic strength of the language that you haven't noticed that *nothing has changed* in Python 2 for several years. ;-)"

Stephen J. Turnbull on the python-dev Mailing List