Re:Python 3.1 released
by drawkbox on Sunday June 28, 2009 @06:27PM
(#678171)
I agree and totally grok why. In an appengine chat I asked Guido directly this question when AppEngine will support Python 3 because after his PyCon speech he was really pushing it. He also stated the difficulties which I totally understand.
But I am not for dropping python older support at all. What I am hoping is there are better ways to install python side by side and within the python program itself it can select the version to use. Therefore you could have apps running 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 etc.
Python version 2 only got good around 2.4 2.5 so the same might happen with Python 3 it is just the infrastructure currently in many cases forces you to choose new or old only because there is no easy version picking in many platforms.
AppEngine did recently add the ability to use_library('django','1.0') so I am hoping the same starts happening for Python versions and more people do this as times goes on.
Python is the best programming community and tools are immense (libraries) I just hope we are able to beat the legacy wave. One way is with version picking and side by side installation of different runtimes.
On the flipside there is a big opportunity to make newer frameworks that are able to run on Python 3 with support back to Python 2.6. So let's go make them.
But I am not for dropping python older support at all. What I am hoping is there are better ways to install python side by side and within the python program itself it can select the version to use. Therefore you could have apps running 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 etc.
Python version 2 only got good around 2.4 2.5 so the same might happen with Python 3 it is just the infrastructure currently in many cases forces you to choose new or old only because there is no easy version picking in many platforms.
AppEngine did recently add the ability to use_library('django','1.0') so I am hoping the same starts happening for Python versions and more people do this as times goes on.
Python is the best programming community and tools are immense (libraries) I just hope we are able to beat the legacy wave. One way is with version picking and side by side installation of different runtimes.
On the flipside there is a big opportunity to make newer frameworks that are able to run on Python 3 with support back to Python 2.6. So let's go make them.