On 12/10/2018, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 10/12/2018 5:17 AM, Tal Einat wrote: > >> The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page >> -<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_. There are two recommended >> production-ready >> -versions at this point in time, because at the moment there are two >> branches of >> -stable releases: 2.x and 3.x. Python 3.x may be less useful than 2.x, since >> -currently there is more third party software available for Python 2 than for >> -Python 3. Python 2 code will generally not run unchanged in Python 3. >> +<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_. There are two production-ready >> version >> +of Python: 2.x and 3.x, but the recommended one at this times is Python 3.x. > > This should be "time", not "times". I'd fix it, but I'm unsure if this > is being backported or not, and I don't want to mess up any merges > before they're done.
Or just remove “at this time[s]”; it doesn’t add much. Also, “two . . . version” should be changed back to plural: “two . . . versions”. > I do think this should backported to 3.7, 3.6, and 2.7. > >> +Although Python 2.x is still widely used, `it will not be >> +maintained after January 1, 2020 >> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/>`_. >> +Python 2.x was known for having more third-party libraries available, >> however, >> +by the time of this writing, most of the widely used libraries support >> Python 3.x, > > Should probably be "at the time of this writing". > >> +and some are even dropping the Python 2.x support. > > And this would read better as "are even dropping support for Python 2.x". _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
