Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020

Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by tonyarkles on Sunday April 13, 2014 @08:38PM (#7583867)

I totally agree. However, until Py3 is packaged standard it's always going to be easier to run Py2 code. For example, I have a friend who does data analysis on OSX and occasionally she gets data in a format that is ugly. I take a look at it and send her a python script that will massage it into something nice.

She's ok with the occasional "sudo pip install ..." to get a library, but if my instructions started with "ok, first install Xcode and then install homebrew" the answer would probably be "it's ok I'll just do it by hand"

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Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by collyw on Monday April 14, 2014 @04:55PM (#7588871)

Simple script like that are unlikely to be much different between Python 2 and 3 unless you are using specific libraries. Just make make all the "prints" into "prints()" and "Exeption, e" into "Exception as e", and I can't see what the differences would be.

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Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by tonyarkles on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @01:49PM (#7593227)

The difference is in the effort required to make it run at all!

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Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 by takeda on Sunday April 13, 2014 @11:03PM (#7584307)

It already is in many distros.

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