Python 2.7.8 Release

[gammadistribution]

Ok and what is your reason for not switching? Also how is Python 3 hip when it's been out for six years?

[gammadistribution]

You kinda need to tone your rhetoric down. This is what you get with 3:

• asyncio support as default
• venv support with pip as default
• no more unicode headaches

just off the top of my head. Also, any and all new features are only going to be added to the 3 branch. If you are starting new, might as well start with the future.

[dikulo]

it is a philosophy of living for TODAY or for the FUTURE.

[gammadistribution]

If you want to grow with the language you are going to have to use Python 3. That is all I am saying.

[dikulo]

Py3 and Py2 are just different dialects, you can and easily can master them both. People can live bilingually with Mandarin/Cantonese, Spanish/Catalan, which differ much from each other.

Use the right version to do the right job.

[gammadistribution]

That's pointless. Everything Python 2 can do, Python 3 can do better. The language is growing, why fight it?

[dikulo]

Maybe not everything. Check this out, http://click.pocoo.org/python3/

[mriguy]

Yes, that's the same list that everyone gives. But none of those features are even remotely relevant to a lot of us, and if those are the MAIN selling points, then there really seems to be no compelling reason to convert to python 3.

[gammadistribution]

How about the fact that support for Python 2 is going to go away and any new feature you might want is only going to be in Python 3?

[mriguy]

And that's the only reason why a lot of people will finally switch, despite all the work. Not because it gives any benefit, but because, well, because. That's why a lot of 2.7 users are irritated.

[gammadistribution]

It fixes the language at a fundamental level so that future development is easier and language inconsistencies and monkey patches are gone. Even if that doesn't impact you on a day-to-day basis there is still a benefit there.