On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:08:48 +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote: >> I think that's not true. If enough people want to support Python 2 it >> might be possible to advance Python 2. > > That won't be sufficient: enough people wanting support won't have any > effect. People also need to want it enough to actually fork from > python.org.
This will happen. > They would then have to convince Linux packagers to include > it in the distribution even though it's not available from python.org, So will this. > and convince Windows users to download it from some other place than > python.org. I don't know about this one. Windows uses Unicode natively, so Python3 isn't so problematic there. > I think people will find that this isn't really worth the > trouble. I disagree. The Unix API uses byte strings, with no associated encoding; always has, always will. For people who use Python as an alternative to bash or Perl, maintaining a fork of Python 2 is going to be less trouble than using Python 3. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
