On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:34 PM, stefanoC <[email protected]> wrote: > bumping an already old question, is django going to run on python > 3.x ? > > I found a few discussions talking about this, eg. and > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/f8c747a26aa5d8ed/0749bfa67b47c802 > and > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/bf9d8808ee5aadb4/40fc62ffdfc551ff?q=%22python+3%22&lnk=nl&; > as well as this page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingDjangoTo3k > > So this question is not about the technical difficulties, rather about > the existance of an official planning for supporting python 3.x.
The short answer: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#can-i-use-django-with-python-3 The longer answer: We haven't published a formal plan -- mostly because in volunteer projects, long term formal plans aren't worth the paper they aren't printed on :-) However, we are aware of the need to transition, and we do have an informal plan to do so. In practical terms, it means dropping support for Python 2.4 and 2.5 in successive releases of Django. Once we're at a Django 2.6 minimum supported version, using 2to3 to maintain parallel implementations becomes a lot easier. The factor slowing progress is the rate at which we can deprecate Python versions. This is largely driven by the Python versions that are in the field and are commercially supported. At the moment, RedHat Enterprise Linux is the laggard of the bunch; in order to support RHEL, we need to support Python 2.4. Our own deprecation policy is governed by the deprecation policies of the underlying operating system platforms. Effectively, this means that official support for Django under Python 3 is still a couple of years away. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
