Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> writes: > Some say 'Python 3 is the future, use it for everything now' and other > say 'Python 3 is the future but you can't do everything in it now so > use Python 2'.
Python 3 is generally better than Python 2, except for a few packages that haven't been ported. That said, I don't know anyone who actually uses Python 3. I don't think it's a matter of wanting to use some problematic package, or having particular technical concerns. It's just that the improvement from 2 to 3 is rather small, and 2 works perfectly well and people are used to it, so they keep using it. There are nice tools that help port your codebase from 2 to 3 with fairly little effort. But, you can also keep your codebase on 2 with zero effort. So people choose zero over fairly little. If you're starting a new project and you get to choose between 2 and 3, other things equal I'd say use 3. I've kept using 2 basically because it's the path of least resistance. I'm somewhat following the 3 situation and of course I'd use 3 if I were doing something that benefited from it, but so far it hasn't been an issue. Eventually the main Linux distros will include 3 instead of 2 by default, and we'll probably see more migration then. Right now I type "python" and get 2, so I use it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
