On Apr 18, 1:08 pm, Joseph Turian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How widely adopted is python 2.5? > > We are doing some development, and have a choice to make: > a) Use all the 2.5 features we want. > b) Maintain backwards compatability with 2.4. > > So I guess the question is, does anyone have a sense of what percent > of python users don't have 2.5? > > Thanks, > Joseph
I think it depends more on what you want to do. If you're distributing the software, you can just "freeze" it and make binaries and then it doesn't matter. Or if you use Python at your business, you can do what we do at my workplace: Put Python on the network and run all the scripts from there. Currently, we have 2.4 on our network, but I think we can upgrade it to 2.5 without breaking anything. I develop in 2.5 and just put the finished products on our network and they usually "just work". But I have yet to find good use cases for some of the cool whizz-bang extras of 2.5, so I haven't pushed for the network upgrade. I hope to figure out when, where and how to use generators and decorators at some point, but I just haven't gotten that far a long yet, I guess. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list