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Re:Google's Python Class by coldtea on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:11PM (#16532935)
>Python 3 has has become prevalent in usage around 2013-2014.

Citation needed. Back then it was at best at 20%, and even today it's not much more (source: PYPY download statistics breakdown).

>I don't know anyone who is starting a Python 2 project as of now.

I know several. Any company with lots of Python 2 projects that are not going anywhere soon (Google is one of them), is probably also starting new Python 2 projects alongside them, they won't add 2 different versions to cater to.

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Re:Google's Python Class by mastazi on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:35PM (#16533124)
> Any company with lots of Python 2 projects that are not going anywhere soon (Google is one of them), is probably also starting new Python 2 projects alongside them, they won't add 2 different versions to cater to.

Citation needed.

Edit: Oh and Tensorflow for Windows is made by Google and it's Python 3.5 or higher.

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