2009/5/7 Shaun Laughey :
> Hi Andy didn't you start a while ago?
We've dabbled and done a private port of the open source
toolkit using 2-to-3, which sort of works except that PIL
is not yet available for 3.0 and that's a major issue for
many users. We also build a ton of solutions on
Django. S
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:13 PM, john maclean wrote:
>
>
> Are many people actually using python 3?
>
>
Not really... from what I can see.
There's about 47 python3 packages listed at pypi, and over 6400+ in total.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=533
The growth rate of 2.x p
On Thu, 7 May 2009, John Pinner wrote:
[...]
But if you are developing new software you should be using Python 3,
ready for when it becomes the default in Linux distributions (already
it is, in Ubuntu 9.04).
What does that mean?
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ub
Hi Andy didn't you start a while ago?
I think the unicode strings alone will make life a lot easier for all
pythonistas not harder.
Plus with the xml parsing libraries that exist now no need to roll
your own - well apart from keeping other peoples bugs out...
Your codebase would become smaller a
Hello,
2009/5/7 Andy Robinson :
> 2009/5/7 John Pinner :
>> But if you are developing new software you should be using Python 3,
>> ready for when it becomes the default in Linux distributions (already
>> it is, in Ubuntu 9.04).
>
> I just did a clean install of Ubuntu desktop 9.04 2 days ago, and
2009/5/7 John Pinner :
> But if you are developing new software you should be using Python 3,
> ready for when it becomes the default in Linux distributions (already
> it is, in Ubuntu 9.04).
I just did a clean install of Ubuntu desktop 9.04 2 days ago, and
typing 'python' brings up 2.6.2.I ha
Hello,
2009/5/7 john maclean :
> Are many people actually using python 3?
Probably not - yet.
But if you are developing new software you should be using Python 3,
ready for when it becomes the default in Linux distributions (already
it is, in Ubuntu 9.04).
Python 3 offers several advantages
2009/5/7 :
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