On Dec 4, 11:39 pm, Chris Gonnerman > I don't think I can surely be the only one. Certainly, I'm nobody > important; it's not as if my opinion has any real bearing on the > situation. I suspect that many Python coders will stay with 2.x; after > all, this is Open Source... there is no Micro$oft forcing us to upgrade > to get more licenses. If enough people stay with 2.x... will the > project fork?
There's no need to get that concerned; Python 2.x will exist and be maintained alongside Python 3.x for quite a while, probably 10 years. FWIW: I think the Python 3 effort has done well to keep things from getting out of hand; I expect transitions to be mostly smooth. Probably the trickiest aspect of transition will be getting Unicode and byte strings straight. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list