Re:Where are we in the Python 3 transition?
by 51109 on Friday January 01, 2016 @07:30PM
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I thought you were asking me a (loaded) question. The advice given was not "never use Python 3 until...", that was a suggested reply to people telling newcomers to go for Python 3. Perhaps too tongue-in-cheek, but coming from someone who taught millions of people Python, worth noting.
You ignore people who say that Python 3 is the future, because it will make you happy and more productive when you can run modern libraries that have a 2.7 requirement. Or you don't ignore them, and get into endless debates about how almost all libraries support 3, and that you need to spend just 1 in 20 days of your time worrying about getting your code to work, instead of... programming. But if that makes you happy, you should do that.
You ignore people who say that Python 3 is the future, because it will make you happy and more productive when you can run modern libraries that have a 2.7 requirement. Or you don't ignore them, and get into endless debates about how almost all libraries support 3, and that you need to spend just 1 in 20 days of your time worrying about getting your code to work, instead of... programming. But if that makes you happy, you should do that.