Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-06 Thread peter
I'm sure Python 3 is wonderful, but I make heavy use of the Python Imaging Library, which as I understand it has not been adapted to Python 3. There may be alternatives, but as I have a large amount of working code using PIL I am reluctant to drop it just yet. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-05 Thread K Richard Pixley
You get some of the good stuff by importing future, unicode literals which essentially means you're working in unicode by default most of the time, and print function, (a small fix but long overdue). I try to write python3 whenever I can. It's rare that dependencies keep me back. More often

Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-05 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/05/2012 03:41 PM, Evan Driscoll wrote: On 1/4/2012 9:56 AM, Sean Wolfe wrote: I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of needing

Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-04 Thread Evan Driscoll
On 1/4/2012 9:56 AM, Sean Wolfe wrote: > I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do > right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be > excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of > needing to break backwards compatibility. But i

Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-04 Thread Rick Johnson
On Jan 4, 9:56 am, Sean Wolfe wrote: > I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do > right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be > excited about the future of the language. Okay. So why not enjoy the best of both worlds (almost) and use version 2.7.2

Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew Berg
On 1/4/2012 9:56 AM, Sean Wolfe wrote: > I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do > right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be > excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of > needing to break backwards compatibility. But i

Re: help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Sean Wolfe wrote: > I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do > right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be > excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of > needing to break backwards compatib

help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-04 Thread Sean Wolfe
I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of needing to break backwards compatibility. But it's not particularly exciting to think about. W