On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 6:26:26 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Jacob Scott writes: > > > Today, I'm happily writing primarily Python (unfortunately, 2.7 -- but I'm > > not sure it makes that much of a difference) > > Python 2.7 is still viable, but is certainly a dead end. The difference > increases month by month, and the advantage is only going to increase to > Python 3. > > Any new code base should not be written in Python 2. Any libraries you > need which don't work yet on Python 3 should be seriously reconsidered. > > > I'd appreciate any pointers to resources I might have missed, general > > thoughts on the topic, etc. > > Code Like A Pythonista was written in the Python 2 era > <http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html> > but is still excellent advice today.
If <link> is python-2 and still the best excellent advice today doesn't it go somewhat counter to pyhthon-2 is a dead-end ?? :-) Need to point this out since the opposite case to Chris' "switch to 3 or else suffer in hell..." needs to be articulated: Python-3 is nice but 2 is ok. The diffs are not such a big deal -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
