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Re:I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python? by mkopinsky on Sunday May 06, 2012 @08:56AM (#3934998)
"Don't worry, migration from Python 2 to 3 is really easy. It'll take 5 minutes to learn."

"Migration for libraries from Python 2 to 3 is really hard. It's taken them a few years and counting."

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Re:I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python? by eevee on Sunday May 06, 2012 @06:44PM (#3936627)
Right. Learning Python 3, once you know 2, is really easy.

Library maintainers have two problems: they have to twiddle their thumbs until all their dependencies have ported, and then they have to get their code running against both 2 and 3. The former is exactly why I'm saying to use 2 for now, and the latter is easy if you only support 2.7 but rather more difficult for projects that still want to run on some archaic thing like 2.3.

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