On 2010/07/02 14:49, David Coppa wrote: > You may have reasons, but these sentences from > http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html sound good to me: > > <<Python 2.7 is planned to be the last of the 2.x releases, so we > worked on making it a good release for the long term.>> > > <<This means that 2.7 will remain in place for a long time, running > production systems that have not been ported to Python 3.x.>> > > <<It?s very likely the 2.7 release will have a longer period of > maintenance compared to earlier 2.x versions. Python 2.7 will continue > to be maintained while the transition to 3.x continues, and the > developers are planning to support Python 2.7 with bug-fix releases > beyond the typical two years.>>
Don't believe the hype. It might be that python 2.7 is going to be great, but experience has shown that, for many software projects, upstream engineering quality is sorely lacking... (of course, python is not GNU python, so it starts with the benefit of the doubt). Besides, switching to 2.6 doesn't prevent us from switching to 2.7 later.
