> On Oct 12, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Martin Panter <vadmium...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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”.
See https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9821 for some updates. Eric > >> 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/eric%2Ba-python-dev%40trueblade.com
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