On 23/10/2013 8:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 23/10/2013 12:57, duf...@gmail.com wrote:
Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not
even bothered learning version 3.x.
The changes aren't large enough to worry a Python programmer so
effectively there's nothing to learn, other than how to run 2to3.
...there is no sign of their being updated for v3.x.
Could have fooled me. The number is growing all the time. The biggest
problem is likely (IMHO) to be the sheer size of the code base and
limitations on manpower.
I get the impression as if 3.x, despite being better and more advanced
than 2.x from the technical point of view, is a bit of a letdown in
terms of adoption.
I agree with this technical aspect, other than the disastrous flexible
string representation, which has been repeatedly shot to pieces by, er,
one idiot :) As for adaption we'll get there so please don't do a
Captain Mainwearing[1] and panic. People should also be pursuaded by
watching this from Brett Cannon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebyz66jPyJg
Just my 2 pence worth.
[1] From the extremely popular BBC TV series "Dad's Army" of the late
60s and 70s.
It would be good if more of the packages were available, for Python 3.3,
in binary for the Windows user.
I am currently wrestling with Pandas, lxml etc.
Colin W.
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