On 2010-06-19, Arc Riley wrote: > You mean Twisted support, No. I don't.
Often, on #python, we get the situation where someone approaches us saying, "I have this problem in my python code, why does this not work for me?" and usually very quickly we establish the programmer has followed a tutorial or attempted to use a library that depends on python 2, but the programmer is running python 3. Queried on why they are using python 3, the answer is frequently, "Because I downloaded the latest version." For those people, we believe it is too early to use python 3. When talking to these people with a world view of "why shouldn't i use the latest version" having a concrete preexisting statement in the topic we can point to is invaluable. We don't always ask those who are having python 3 problems to go to python2. Often we simply explain about all strings bring unicode or print now being a function, and the conversation dies. There are also programmers who definately should be using python 3 for their work. They know who they are. They do receive support in #python. -- In writing this email to python-dev, I have reviewed my logs of #python specifically looking for the phrase 'python 3'. Here are some packages that were named in the conversations: - py2exe - cx_Freeze - twisted - PIL - ctypes - email I present this list because they are what programmers are coming to #python to ask about, and that may be relevent to your discussion about python 3 ports. -- Regards, Stephen Thorne _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
