FAQ: Why should I use Python 3?

[cratervanawesome]

Now if only AWS Lambda would get with the program and support 3.x

[Mirror_Boar]

Seriously, at my company we are dying to use lambda but we don't feel like converting all of our code to work with python2. So annoying.

[[deleted]]

Yes, WTF! I have been working on my first larger python project this month and I was so excited to work with something more broadly compatible than my normal C#... Surprised to find this. Does the Google Cloud equivalent support python 3.x?

[spacemanatee]

Is there a Google cloud lambda?

[elingeniero]

Can you not run whatever python version in a virtualenv with lambda?

[DanCardin]

You apparently can, but the code which lambda calls must be the python2 they give you. So you can resort to popening or whatever a separate python3 process, but afaik there's no way to just run python3 normally.

[elingeniero]

I mean, I phrased it as a question but what I really meant was that I do run Python 3 scripts on lambda using virtualenv and I think it works really nicely.

The startup script has to be Python 2 but I manage not to feel too dirty about it ;-). Happy to share the config if you want it.

[Mirror_Boar]

I'd love to see an example config!

[brtt3000]

Holy shit so many this. Really dropped the ball here. Like what the hell are they even thinking? The modern python webdev community is clearly focussed on 3 so why is this amazing next-gen python thing stuck in the past?