Am Mittwoch, den 14.03.2018, 10:34 -0400 schrieb Nathan Hartman:
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 3:12 PM, Paul Rogers <paulgrog...@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> 
> > > Hazel, a little late in replying, I know, but I agree, it is
> > > annoying to
> > > have to install two versions of Python.  Of course, the Python
> > > Community
> > > would say that there is only one version of Python now and that
> > > is Python 3.
> > 
> > I'm on Hazel's side.  I like lightweight systems.  And although I
> > do recognize there may come a time to break backward compatibility,
> > I still wish they'd provide a P2->P3 translator.
> 
> I've heard there is one but that it cannot translate all code with
> perfect accuracy.
> 
> I think many projects like to keep their Python 2 code because it
> works, changing it may only introduce "growing pains," and the
> perception is that the hassle outweighs the annoyance of installing
> two Python versions or the benefit of moving forward.

Not only because it just works - there might be projects also available
on other platforms (other than Linux on x86) where P2 is still
standard. So they cannot easily switch to P3 (and drop P2 support).

But yes, having two Pythons on the machine is not that cool...

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