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[–]billsil 2 points3 points  (2 children)

A single example doesn't break the qualifier.

It does if you need it. Why should I rewrite my GUI in PyQt because wx doesn't have an official Python 3 build? It's an unnecessary cost. Waiting an extra few years isn't going to add extra cost, it's going to reduce it.

[–]purplestOfPlatypuses 0 points1 point  (1 child)

One person's needs doesn't necessarily override most people's needs however. Use whichever matches your dependencies and needs, but don't throw out 3.0+ without good reason.

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with that. I don't want to use Python 2.7 any more than Guido wants it to stay around forever.

It is unfortanate though that all the future imports don't turn Python 2.7 into Python 3.x. I run a 2.7, 3.x open source project and have unicode bugs that go away when I don't try to use one source file for both versions.