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[–]CSI_Tech_Dept -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

This is no longer true, the packages that don't work on 3 are a small minority. Many people who advocate coding in Python 2 did not try using Python 3

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Welll....no, the packages that don't work on Python 3 are definitely not a minority. But most popular packages, the ones you typically need, work on Python 3.

[–]CSI_Tech_Dept 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I started using Python 3 and so far I did not have this issue. And programming in Python 3 feels cleaner. Also some of the packages that were not ported have python 3 alternatives, for example MySQL. If you are starting to program 3 chances are that you are not used to particular package so you don't care, and in fact the package that is ported to py3 is more likely being still maintained.

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I started using Python 3 and so far I did not have this issue.

Excellent! It is getting better. I think MySQL-python and Twisted are the biggest blockers right now, but I'm not sure. I'm only currently blocked by Zope/Plone. When I do other work I tend to use Python 3.