in 714500 20140113 233415 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:40:25 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> Incidentally, is there a reason you're using Python 2.6? You should be >>> able to upgrade at least to 2.7, and Flask ought to work fine on 3.3 >>> (the current stable Python). If it's the beginning of your project, and >>> you have nothing binding you to Python 2, go with Python 3. Converting a >>> small project now will save you the job of converting a big project in >>> ten years' time >> >> Everything you say is correct, but remember that there is a rather large >> ecosystem of people writing code to run on servers where the supported >> version of Python is 2.6, 2.5, 2.4 and even 2.3. RedHat, for example, >> still has at least one version of RHEL still under commercial support >> where the system Python is 2.3, at least that was the case a few months >> back, it may have reached end-of-life by now. But 2.4 will definitely >> still be under support. > >Pledging that your app will run on the system Python of RHEL is >something that binds you to a particular set of versions of Python. >It's not just library support that does that.
Does any Linux distro ship with Python 3? I haven't seen one. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
