Maciej Fijalkowski, 07.04.2013 10:37: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Maciej Fijalkowski, 07.04.2013 10:12: >>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM, <martin...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>>> Quoting Lennart Regebro: >>>>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:11 AM, <martin...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>>>>> Wrt. to the 3.x migration rate: I think this is a self-fulfilling >>>>>> prophecy. Migration rate will certainly increase once we announce >>>>>> an end of 2.7, and then again when the end is actually reached. >>>>> >>>>> Well... People are in general *stuck* on Python 2. They are not >>>>> staying because they want to. So I'm not so sure migration rate will >>>>> increase because an end is announced or reached. >>>> >>>> I assume you say that because people rely on libraries that haven't >>>> been ported (correct me if there are other reasons to be stuck). >>> >>> I'm stuck because I can't tell my users "oh, we didn't improve pypy >>> for the last year/6 months/3 months, because we were busy upgrading >>> sources you'll never see to python 3" >> >> Why not? It's not like many people *see* PyPy's sources ever in their life, >> but my guess is that most of your users will eventually end up *using* >> those upgraded sources anyway. So those upgrades will also be an >> improvement for most of them. > > Some of them, maybe. > > Most people absolutely don't care. Most of my users are people who > want this 10% speed improvement rather than sources upgraded to a > different, supposedly better, language.
My guess is that they don't care because they don't have a choice anyway. If they want to use PyPy (because they care about this 10% speedup), then they have to stick to Python 2 as of now. Extrapolating from that that they wouldn't prefer writing Python 3 code if they could is a fallacy. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
