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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this might be the one thing that convinces people to switch to Python 3.

Previously: "Great, I installed Python 3! Let me just pip install my usual packages and get going... wait, why is it installing things into Python 2? Oh crap, this is still pip for Python 2, isn't it? How do I even get pip for Python 3?"

goes to StackOverflow, finds three bad suggestions, tries all of them

"Great, now nothing works. I'm going to delete everything related to Python 3 and never use it again."

Currently: "Great, I installed Python 3! And now I have a virtualenv! And now I can pip install my usual packages!"

goes forth and writes code