On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:25 -0500, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > >> > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I was going to write this post for a while because all sorts of myths > >> periodically come up on this list about python 3. I don't think the > >> posters mean to spread false information on purpose, they simply are > >> not aware of the facts. > >> > >> My list is surely incomplete, please feel free to post your favorite > >> misconception about python 3 that people periodically state, claim or > >> ask about. > > > > Myths about Python 3: > > > > 1. Python 3 is supported by major Linux distributions. > > > > FALSE - most distros are shipping with Python 2.4, or 2.5 at best. > > > The latest versions of Ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic, Fedora 11 and 12, and > OpenSUSE 11.2 all use Python 2.6. Ubuntu has been shipping python 3 > since Jaunty came out last April. According to Fedora's package index, > Python 3 is in the devel version which probably means it will be in > upcoming versions of Fedora as well.
FWIW, more information on Fedora python 3 status here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python3F13 [snip] > Give the package maintainers time to update. There were some pretty > big changes to the C API. Most of the major 3rd party packages like > numpy and MySQLdb have already commited to having a Python 3 version. > They just haven't gotten them out yet. I'll take this opportunity to make a shameless plug for my 2to3c tool: http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3935.html which takes some of the grunt work out of taking C code and making it compilable against both 2 and 3. (it will still require a human to do some of the work, alas). Hope this is helpful Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
