On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2013, at 2:14 PM, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> > wrote: > > > Also, I think that proponents of backporting this PEP are missing > > something important. Specifically, why are we encouraging the use of > > Python 2.7 for "new users"? Shouldn't we use this as an opportunity > > to say, "Move to Python 3.4 and forget the 'agony of installing pip' > > issue forever?" > > Because reality is that new users are still likely to be using Python 2.7. > Python 3 > is just now starting to be really usable, however there's a huge corpus of > existing > tutorials, course work, books etc for Python 2.7. As Python 3 becomes more > usable > that existing corpus of material will be ported over to Python 3 but in > the interim > there is still a pretty large hurdle for new users to get over. > > That's assuming that they are even able to use Python 3 and whatever they > are trying > to do with all of their libraries are ported to Python3. I still think > Python 2.7 is a better > target for new users because if you're using Python 3.x theirs a high > chance you'll > need to port a library or two still. > Based on my day-to-day experience this is still very true. (And yes, I'm slowly turning the tide. But it will take a long time and I am committed to giving users the choice.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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