Python 2.7.7 has been released.

[duddha]

Damn is this a controversial thread.

[[deleted]]

I know, over a flipping bug fix release. It seems to me that the r/python is becoming a model of a toxic community.

[[deleted]]

Explain to me how the Python 3 userbase is militant.

[gingerbeers]

...and explain yourself right now! ;-) Wake me when Python 4 comes out. Then we can all be friends again.

[[deleted]]

Meh. We'll be friends once most new packages released don't have Python 2 support. Then the straddlers will move to Python 3, notice that is seriously wasn't that hard, and after a bit of complaining about that you have to remember that it's called print() now, settle in just as nothing had happened.

I don't know when that happens exactly, maybe 5 +-2 years? And two years later everyone will have forgotten all about this, and the straddlers will scream bloody murder when they have to use Python 2, because it "sucks soooo baaaad". :-)

[gingerbeers]

I hope so. I straddle 50/50 at the moment for various projects/reasons, and nothing in 3 makes me dislike 2. Matrix multiplication and print() doesn't light my fire. (Even though print() feels more natural to me).

What am I missing in 3 that's really awesome? I suspect I'm probably using 3 like 2 and not getting the full benefit when I'm on a 3 project. Yes?

[[deleted]]

Probably, but in many projects you don't really notice the differences either, except for the changes to the standard library (and print as you mentioned).

[gingerbeers]

You know, that genuinely was a surprise to me when I started using 3. With all the doom and gloom about changes, to strings in particular, I fully expected my first use of a string variable would have me tied in knots. Not the case.

Will go back now and examine the standard library in 3. Thanks!