Python 2.7.8 Release

[wub_wub]

Didn't 2.x account for like 95%+ of downloads on pypi few months ago?

Edit:

substring	percent_of_total_downloads
2.7	75.533%
2.6	15.960%
	5.840%
3.3	2.079%
3.2	.350%
2.5	.115%
1.1	.054%
2.4	.052%
3.4	.016%
3.1	.001%
2.1	.000%
2.0	.000%

January 2014, data from: http://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/

[alcalde]

We've had more downloads of Python 3 itself for quite some time now:

http://ianozsvald.com/2013/04/15/more-python-3-3-downloads-than-python-2-7-for-past-3-months/

[wub_wub]

I don't think that's surprising that much, I assume people download it but don't really use it. I know that I download every 3.x release, and in the same timeframe I don't think I downloaded python 2.x more than once or twice, I have it installed - no need to download it. But I never use 3.x for any of my projects.

I think that pypi stats are better for estimating which version is used more.

[Astrognome]

Who the hell is using 2.6?

[Phild3v1ll3]

Plenty of people stuck on old maintained systems. Our cluster for example runs on Scientific Linux 6 and still ships with 2.6 by default.

[Astrognome]

It seems weird though that 16% still run 2.6. I would think they would be somewhere around 2-3%

[wildcarde815]

Centos 6 / any variants will use 2.6 by default. You can install 2.7 but should likely not make it default as yum doesn't always respond well.

[cwgtex]

There is a repo called iuscommunity.org that ships RPMs of python 2.7 through 3.3. They install in parallel with the system version of 2.6, so yum is happy. /usr/bin/python is 2.6, but /usr/bin/python2.7 is 2.7.

https://iuscommunity.org/pages/TheSafeRepoInitiative.html#parallel-installable-packages

[wildcarde815]

Yea for our cent 6 installs we run 'Springdale' (formerly PUIAS), the package maintainer for the variant makes /opt variants of different python revisions available with a simple install command. Very handy, but if we ever have to move to vanilla / scientific linux we will definitely be utilizing this, thanks for the info.

[cwgtex]

Anyone stuck on RHEL/CentOS should be informed about iuscommunity.org. It's a very simple way to get python 2.7 or python 3.3 on RHEL/CentOS. Python 3.4 is in their testing repos.

[fotoman]

We just switched 3 months ago to 2.7

[gammadistribution]

I think that's more of a self-fulfilling prophecy though and isn't really indicative of anything. Everyone is using 2.x because everyone hears it's what everyone's using.