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Re:Google's Python Class by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:42PM (#16532353)
> Is there something useful that's only in Python 3?

Most of the big libraries have supported both 2 and 3 for a while; that's changing soon, and not because Python 3 is dying.

IPython dropped Py 2 support in 6.x.

Django dropped support for Py 2 with Django 2.0.

Numpy drops new feature support for Python 2 at the end of this year (but will continue bugfixes for that last Py2-supporting feature release past that point), and all support for Python 2 at the end of next.

SciPy, similarly, has announced it will drop Python 2 support by 2020.

And lots of other libraries have sunsetted or announced plans to sunset Py 2 support quite soon.

Also—and a big driver—is that the Python Software Foundation has announced it will drop support for Python 2 in 2020.

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Re:Google's Python Class by GCU-Empiricist on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:27AM (#16536990)
Numpy drops new feature support for Python 2 at the end of this year (but will continue bugfixes for that last Py2-supporting feature release past that point), and all support for Python 2 at the end of next.

>SciPy, similarly, has announced it will drop Python 2 support by 2020.

And there's the reason I needed to convert, thank you.

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