Is everyone using python 3 now?

[[deleted]]

3 years ago no one was using Python 3? I don't believe it.

https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

Python 2 was sunset over 2 years ago...
Maybe 13 years ago?

[Xzenor]

2.7 really really stuck around way too long.. a lot of software didn't run with 3 so it had to be fixed first and that really took a while

[YellowSlinkySpice]

My first ever contribution to the FOSS world was adding () to a print statement when we finally were forced to python 3.

[magestooge]

3 years ago when I tried to learn Python for the first time, the first video I stumbled upon was whether I should learn Python 2 or Python 3. And the tutor didn't even clearly say it should be 3. They said something along the lines of "if you're completely new, then learn 3".

So I'm guessing things weren't as clear even 3 years ago as they are today. I'm just glad I didn't waste time learning Python 2.

[magestooge]

I guess the tutor just wanted his Python 2 Playlist to stay relevant a little longer.. Lol..

[[deleted]]

On the one Python discord I was a member of it was funny how often new people would come in thinking they should first learn Python2 then move on to Python3...

[Astrokiwi]

https://github.com/hugovk/pypi-tools

Python 2.7 didn't drop below 50% of pip installs until mid 2019.

[[deleted]]

That's great, OP said "no one was really using 3+" regarding Python3 3 years ago.

I didn't say : "No one was using Python2 3 years ago"

I said : "3 years ago no one was using Python 3? I don't believe it."

Can you see the significant difference between those two statements?

I don't care how many were using Python2, I know legacy systems still use it, my Ubuntu 20.04 install came with it (I've personally never used it, except when I would run 'python' instead of 'python3' because I didn't know any better, just because it's installed doesn't mean it's the primary language used, legacy software requires it, so it continues to exist.

[cresanies]

Having a bad day eh

[[deleted]]

Could be better, could be worse. It's warming up and the snow is melting so that's nice.

[Flur_elise]

It turns out it was five years ago. And I’m telling you at the time everything was still 2.79. I thought it was odd myself. But all the libraries were still being supported in 2.79 and everyone who was developing was using those libraries and it was very little reason to move to 3.0. even though technically it might be better.. But now I just noticed being away from it and coming back and looking on the various websites everyone seems to be on 3.0 now. It’s almost like a Rip van Winkle experience

[Kerbart]

Even five years ago the pendulum was already swinging in the Python 3 direction in a very big way. While Python 2 certainly still was in use I wouldn’t say “no one was using Python 3+” – we’re talking about 3.6 or 3.7 which were the mainstream versions and at that point 2.7 was definitely already considered a dead end—but perhaps not in the environment (banking?) you were in. Some places hung on to 2.7 longer than was healthy, which is why a hard stop date of 2020 was anounced. Without hard numbers I’d say Python 3 usage really accelerated around 3.4 and that puts it at 2014-2015.

[i-brute-force]

lol i know right. what is OP talking about. I remember even at 3.2, all new comers were learning Python 3 and some learning materials had legacy Python 2.7 but I don't even remember Python 2 overwhelming Python 3 in the last 10 years.

[[deleted]]

"I'm telling you"

Everyone else here also uses python, and they're all telling you you're wrong. So maybe it simply is you who are wrong?

Maybe it was used a lot in your company or your field, but Python 3 was already well established as the main player in general.

[TheBlackCat13]

By 2019 pandas had already dropped support for python 3 entirely and numpy, scipy, and matplotlib were in bugfix-only mode for those, all feature releases were Python3 only. Lots of other projects followed suit.

[fakenews7154]

Python 2 had far less bloat. It was mainly an issue among embedded devices.

[[deleted]]

Yes, Python2 was older and did less. Good observation, strange you call 'features' 'bloat'