I had thought of that right after I sent the email - obviously I can't switch until all the libraries I use are supported (so pygtk, matplotlib, numpy and scipy at a minimum).
2008/12/5 David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/12/4 Daniel Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Has anyone used it yet? Whats it like? Who's planning on moving from 2.x? >> > > It's unlikely that it will see much uptake for the coming months if > not years, and probably not by many companies until they are forced to > (i.e. 2.x is no longer getting maintained). > >> I'm about to start writing some Python code for extracting data from >> log files for reliability testing in work, but I'll be doing it in >> Python 2.6, so I'm curious if other people are going to switch >> immediately or stick with 2.6 for a while longer. I intend on checking >> out 3.0 fairly soon (over the weekend maybe) and switching for >> personal projects. > > I'd suggest sticking to 2.x for the time being, even for hobby type > code, since at the present time practically none of the third party > libs have 3.0 support, never mind being tested and stable. > >> >> On a side note, how does execution performance of 3.0 compare to 2.6? >> (Not that its an issue for me, but I am curious) > > Significantly slower for some operations, particularly on integers. As > noted in the 3.0 What's New document, 3.0 is about 10% slower running > PyStone (this is part of the stdlib as test.pystone apparently). > >> >> -- >> Daniel Kersten. >> Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985. >> >> > >> > > > > -- Daniel Kersten. Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
