Thanks for the tips, Berco, Wayne. @Wayne: Thanks for the welcome. Why are you using 2.5 for your new/ large project instead of 2.6?
Tony On Aug 5, 2:22 pm, Wayne Koorts <wkoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > > However, I'm nervous about the Python 3 situation. What if I start > > building a large project based on Django/Python 2.6, and then a year > > or two down the road the project starts limping because of all of the > > cool new Python 3 modules coming out? And I've got a bunch of Django/ > > Python 2.6 code that needs to be ported? > > First of all, welcome to the Python world, we'll do our best to make > you feel comfortable here. > > You'll find that the Python crowd is very good at supporting legacy > versions. You'll see that you can even still download [1] Python > 1.5.2 (April 1999!). That's not to say that your favourite libraries > will be available for such old versions, but many libraries still make > releases for at least as far back as Python 2.3. Also, I don't think > you'll find that Python 3.x will introduce anything so radically new > and innovative that it will severely limit what you can accomplish > with older releases. I'm working on a team starting a new (large) > project now which we are basing around Python 2.5. > > Remember that Python has been around for a long time, since 1991, and > releases like 2.5, 2.6 etc. are extremely mature and by now all of the > common programming problems have already been encountered, solved and > accomodated in the core and standard libraries. > > If you do decide to port your application to 3.x (think very carefully > about it first - make sure that any of the associated libraries you > require have mature 3.x releases) there are tools available to make > the job a lot easier, like the 2to3 [2] script. > > [1]http://www.python.org/download/ > [2]http://www.python.org/doc/2.6/library/2to3.html > > HTH, > > Regards, > Wayne Koortshttp://www.wkoorts.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
