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Re:Python 3 in 2016 by unfamiliar on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:41AM (#11125097)
Yes but when you want to distribute a program at the end of the day, you don't want to have to bundle python with every release or ask the use to install it, which makes a lot of people choose python 2 since it is ubiquitous.
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Re:Python 3 in 2016 by new_hackers on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:38PM (#11128640)
python 2 is not ubiquitous, it is not installed by default on Windows
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Re:Python 3 in 2016 by ylem on Thursday February 18, 2016 @05:55PM (#11130036)
YMMV, but in the past, I've found it fairly easy to just have windows users install python(x,y) for scientific computing purposes. It's huge, but afterwards, most things just work. Anaconda is also a good choice.
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