In article <5325a$4c349b5b$4275d90a$27...@fuse.net>, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote:
> That's decision for each business to make. My guess is that many > businesses won't upgrade for some time, until the major > libraries/modules support Python 3. I don't plan to move to Python 3 for > at least a couple of years. It takes a long time for big businesses to upgrade. It's not like me or you. I just download the latest and greatest, run the installer, and I'm good to go. A big company has to install it in a test lab, certify it, get approval from IT, log a change request, etc. You need to get approval from your manager, your director, your VP, and so on up the management chain until you finally reach somebody who has no clue what's going on and either sits on the request or denies it out of ignorance. Or, more likely, you just hit some middle-management layer where the guy doesn't have the authority to approve it himself, and isn't willing to expend the political capital it would take to get approval from the next layer up. Somebody might decide they don't want to disturb any existing production systems (not a bad idea, really), so you need to order new hardware for it. Even if you can get capital approval for that, it mushrooms into finding rack space, and the UPS is already oversubscribed, and so is the cooling, and there's no available network ports, and so on. Suddenly, downloading some free software has become a 5-figure project. Big businesses have lots of ways to ensure that no progress is ever made. If you think any of the above is made up, you've never worked for a big company. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list