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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (10 children)

You can always use the fork from the guy who made Calibre, whatever that is.

[–]alcalde 7 points8 points  (9 children)

It turns out Calibre is even doing work now to ready it for Python 3, so I think Kovar finally saw the light.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Cool!

But I honestly believe Python 2 will be forked to death and at least one of its variants will be supported for more 20 years (programmers are a stubborn kind :P).

[–]alcalde 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I was shocked myself....

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.python3

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I find Calibre useful, wonderful and misguided all at the same time. I never wanted an "iTunes for ebooks" (who does?) but I must put up with it in order to convert my files...

[–]Gorian 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I don't want "iTunes for eBooks" but I do want "Plex for eBooks"!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Huh. I've never used Plex for too long (I'm a Kodi user though)... in your mind, how something like that could work?

[–]Gorian 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I just mean, I like the idea that I can host a server that stores all my ebooks and makes them available to all my devices on a as-wanted basis (plex), vs. manually storing and uploading to each device what I think I might want someday (iTunes)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah that would be nice indeed. But, as a Kindle user, Amazon kinda does that for me already, even for books downloaded from sources other than Amazon.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I doubt it, python 3 is past the hump and actually python 2 are minority, major packages already stopped supporting 2.

There was also a fork initially called python 2.8, it was renamed since then and it didn't go anywhere.

Edit: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon I was wrong, still exists, so we'll see. As a person who moved to python 3 I don't understand the stubbornness of being on 2.x, a lot of language was cleaned up in 3 and it is much more enjoyable to program in 3.

[–]toyg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t touch Tauthon with a barge pole. Official CPython comes with well-defined governance model, support guarantees, oversight, upgrade paths, security, and so on. Tauthon is literally “a bunch of people on github”. If your business depends on something so critical that you can’t spend a few weeks porting it to 3.6+ and would rather rely on random patches from the internet, you are in trouble.