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Re:Why Python 3 Exists by Spiritus on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:47PM (#10752973)
I think the reason is that it's basically only now that Linux distros are starting to ship Python 3 as the default. When RHEL, CentOS and Debian moves completely to Python 3, the rest of the world will follow.
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Re:Why Python 3 Exists by detaro on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:43PM (#10754390)
Is the shipped default really so important, esp. for third-party software? E.g. for RHEL you get python3 packages through Red Hat Software Collections, with support and "intended for production use".

(It of course limits software that is to be shipped with the distro itself)

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Re:Why Python 3 Exists by tshtf on Thursday December 17, 2015 @02:01PM (#10753602)
RHEL/CentOS 7 was released in June of 2014 with Python 2.7.

Following their glacial release schedule, maybe we'll see Python 3 by 2019 in RHEL 8.

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Re:Why Python 3 Exists by jessaustin on Thursday December 17, 2015 @02:11PM (#10753676)
Those who use value a more rapid package update schedule shouldn't use those distros. One of their most salient features is the ancient software packages.
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