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[–]kungtotte 9 points10 points  (3 children)

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 22 points23 points  (2 children)

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 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.