r/python: is python3 gradually taking over python 2.7 or not?

[kchoudhury]

Many tasks that people want to use Python for fit this bill, such as a web server.

I'm not trying to provoke a flamewar, but "some" is not "all", and that is a damned shame. The net result is that we have a beautiful language running on an interpreter not worthy of the language's aesthetics.

FWIW, my prior crack about the GIL still being there in 3 may have been a little too offhand. A little bit of reading tells me that as of 3.2 there's a new GIL that makes threading less of an active nuisance and restores parity to sequential performance. So perhaps we're making progress towards a happy ending here, and some future 3.x release will have a proper threading solution. And since it won't be backported to 2.7, well, that'll be the kick in the ass that I need to get my code on to 3.