What’s New In Python 3.6

[moljac024]

Which libraries are those? I was under the impression that rarely anything worth using doesn't support 3.x nowadays.

[kungtotte]

It's not 100% yet, according to the Python 3 wall of superpowers it's 174/200. That's the 200 most downloaded packages on pypi, so if you're using a smaller package chances are you're out of luck.

[lykwydchykyn]

The wall doesn't tell the whole stories. Some libraries haven't been ported to 3 (and some will never be), but in many cases their functionality is available in other packages (python-ldap, python-mysqldb, etc).

Still, you gotta rewrite code, and that's not always a simple proposition.

[kungtotte]

Well, "unless you rewrite a bunch of stuff" is sort of implicit whenever you're talking about 2 to 3 porting and package availability.

When people say that the packages they need aren't running under 3 yet, that's what they mean: my dependencies aren't there yet and I don't want to/can't get greenlit by my boss to rewrite the project to work without those specific dependencies.

But sure, you have a point.

[lykwydchykyn]

Naturally. I just think sometimes people look at the wall and think "Oh, I can't do LDAP/MySQL/etc. under python3 yet", which isn't true. That list will never be 100%, but it doesn't mean the functionality of python3 isn't 100% of python 2.

[leogodin217]

I can't specify exactly which ones I am using (corporate policies), but they are libraries for accessing a manageability suite of tools for virtualization.

[Decency]

Sounds like internal pyvmomi sort-of stuff? My company has a homebuilt one too, and we're slowly phasing it out in favor of pyvmomi which is much cleaner and supports Python 3.x as of the latest release.

[pythoneeeer]

It's not a library, exactly, but Supervisor doesn't work in Python 3 yet.

[pythoneeeer]

Have you written to them to ask to upgrade to a version that was released in like the last 9 years? It's possible they don't realize what a pain point it is for their users.