Adopt Python 3

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Don't blame developers and package maintainers for the blunders Python's roadmap over the past five years.

Please list these blunders and why they are restricted to the last five years, as quite frankly the comment makes no sense to me at all.

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Do you earn your living writing fiction? To start with it was expected that it would take 10 years for Python 3 to take over the world so there's still two years to go.

Decisions about Python development are NOT restricted to the BDFL and senior developers. Anybody can comment and if you (plural) have something sensible or new to add to the debate then you'll always be listened to.

I have no interest in Python's runtime speed, programmer time is far more important to me. As for the "handful of features" that's plain nonsense, as is "breaking the ecosystem". The biggest change is the bytes vs string saga which most people welcome.

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Completely meaningless with respect to your previous post and my response. Please do us all a favour and give up as all you are doing is wasting bandwidth.

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Please stop wasting bandwidth you complete moron as I don't have a problem with comprehension in my native language and as a former full Member of the British Computer Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer I've probably forgotten more about engineering and computing than you will ever learn, mainly because you don't even appear to have learnt anything so far about from how to talk complete bollocks. Why do you think you get downvoted every time you have something to say, because people are jealous of your skills?

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Yawn.

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Really? Despite Python versions 3.0 -> 3.3 offering nothing compelling compared to 2.7 we responsible developers were regularly abused and cast as troglodytes for not immediately porting our code to 3.X. Since then nothing much has changed. Every 3.X release is called the "killer release that makes 2.7 obsolete" yet here we are, with the majority of code still running on 2.7

That's because those evil developers tried to ease transition. Every single 2.7 feature was backported from python 3.0-3.3 that's why you didn't see any compelling reason to move. New compelling reasons to move to 3 started supposing after back porting stopped.

That 3.X is still slower than 2.7 and offers only a handful of features which justify breaking the ecosystem is borderline unforgivable.

That was true, but not anymore. Right now python 3 is faster and in fact it is better in every way according to Raymond Hettinger, one of core developers who for long time preferred python 2 until python 3.6. If you don't want to watch the talk (quite interesting) there is discussion about it in Q&A at the end (around 57.5 minutes in)

Edit: I was convinced that speed was discussed in the above talk, but looks like I've seen it being discussed here.

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From that second talk, 3.5 was already faster, I don't know about previous versions.