On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:40:18 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > 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.
Spoken like a true ASCII user :-) The "killer feature" of Python 3 is improved handling of Unicode, which now brings Python 3 firmly into the (very small) group of programming languages with first-class support for more than 128 different characters by default. Unfortunately, that made handling byte strings a bit more painful, but 3.4 improves that, and 3.5 ought to fix it. People doing a lot of mixed Unicode text + bytes handling should pay attention to what goes on over the next 18 months, because the Python core developers are looking to fix the text/byte pain points. Your feedback is wanted. > 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. True. But for anyone wanting long term language support, a little bit of effort today will save them a lot of effort in six years time. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
