[Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet? Results on my poll on Twitter

Hi, I created the following poll on Twitter with a duration of 7 days: """ Is it Python 3 yet? https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2017-January/01.html I proposed to hide Python 2 by default from the http://python.org download page. ( ) It's Python 3 O'Clock! ( ) Have some legacy

Re: [Python-ideas] Using Python for end user applications

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017, at 11:26 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > I'm working on > a project to bundle a working zipapp with the embedded distribution to > make a standalone exe - would having something like that make any > difference in your environment? I'd be interested in this, and whether there's any

Re: [Python-ideas] Using Python for end user applications

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017, at 02:29 PM, Steve Dower wrote: > I think what we really want is a self-extractor that "installs" into > the user's AppData directory without prompting for admin. There's a PR in the works for Pynsist that will add a non-admin per-user install into AppData:

Re: [Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

Agree with all of this. That's state of the art for many projects. On 07.02.2017 07:35, Mike Miller wrote: Hmm, agreed. BTW, I think the current download page is *way* too complicated for new comers. There should be a giant button for the latest 3.x/64 (platform sniffed), and below it a

Re: [Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet? Results on my poll on Twitter

Let the dissection of the Twitter-based biases and bubbles begin. :) On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:15 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I created the following poll on Twitter with a duration of 7 days: > """ > Is it Python 3 yet? >

Re: [Python-ideas] math.nextafter

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 10:15, Steve Dower wrote: > These days, the subset of C99 supported by MSVC is "most" of it, so feel > free to start off by assuming the best, at least for new features (the > version we use for 2.7 obviously is not improving). The subset of the C *library*, anyway, since

Re: [Python-ideas] Is it Python 3 yet?

On 2/7/17, Mike Miller wrote: > Hmm, agreed. BTW, I think the current download page is *way* too > complicated > for new comers. > > There should be a giant button for the latest 3.x/64 (platform sniffed), > and below it a more subtle button for the "LTS" 2.X/32. I am

Re: [Python-ideas] Using Python for end user applications

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 7 February 2017 at 14:29, Steve Dower wrote: >> You can leave python.exe out of your distribution to avoid it showing up on >> PATH, or if your stub explicitly LoadLibrary's vcruntime140.dll and