Re: [python-uk] A paper about Python 2 to Python 3 transitioning

2018-06-20 Thread Nick Murdoch
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > Has anyone else seen this? Anyone any thoughts about it? > > https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/publications/papers/esem2017/paper.pdf I think the biggest assumption here is that existing projects both need to use new features ad

Re: [python-uk] A paper about Python 2 to Python 3 transitioning

2018-06-20 Thread Thomas Kluyver
I haven't seen it before, but from the abstract, their central result is that most projects are maintaining compatibility with Python 2. This doesn't come as a surprise, but I'd add the words "so far". They cloned repositories in March 2017. In fact, they already picked up IPython and Django mo

[python-uk] A paper about Python 2 to Python 3 transitioning

2018-06-20 Thread Russel Winder
Hi, I got a link to this paper on another email list. The person there thought it might enable Python 2 to have a new resurgence and lead to the death of Python 3. I am not entirely sure he was joking. Personally I am not sure the paper is sound in that they seem to be making assumptions and thenc