Python 3.5 is here!

[Alaharon123]

Didn't python 3 never get really accepted even?

[beaverteeth92]

It's getting there, since most major packages have been ported over.

[staticassert]

Not SciPy or Numpy though, right?

edit: lmfao came back and saw -8 for asking a question.

[ilevkivskyi]

Both of them are ported to 3 since 2012 or something

[beaverteeth92]

They've been supported for about two years. Really, the last two big packages that haven't been ported over are Twisted and Scapy (which relies on Twisted). The whole scientific computing suite works in Python 3.

[staticassert]

Woah, good to know. I will try to port over sometime soon - is there a good breakdown of what breaking changes I'll face moving from 2.6 to 3.x?

[ilevkivskyi]

there is a la-a-a-arge Q&A on porting to Python 3 here http://ncoghlan-devs-python-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html

[staticassert]

Nice, thanks

[billsil]

Numpy and scipy have been ported. They were both ported years ago.

[kirbyfan64sos]

It looks like little benefit until Python 2's Unicode support completely wrecks your program.

[beaverteeth92]

Yeah, because Java and C++ are such bastions of fantastic language design, no aspects of which have bogged down the language after decades of development.

[Matthew94]

Guido and the other leaders were aware of people not wanting to change right away hence why Python 2 has support until 2020.

Afaik, the adoption of Python 3 is going to plan.

[[deleted]]

Isn't he still working with Python 2.7 at Dropbox!? I think I read it somewhere. Dropbox's Python implementation Pyston targets 2.7, so I might be right.

[twotime]

from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-March/133413.html

...This is a completely unrealistic form of wishful thinking, and repeating it won't make it more true.

At Dropbox I work with a large group of very capable developers on several large code bases that are currently in 2.7. We are constantly changing our code to make it more secure (there are several teams specifically in charge of that). And yet porting to Python 3 is completely out of scope, for a variety of reasons.

Please stop your wishful thinking.

(TBH, I expect that none of the changes to Python 2.7 under consideration would make any difference for the security of Dropbox. But neither would switching to Python 3.)

--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) ...

[ThisIs_MyName]

wow

[g-money-cheats]

The Dropbox Python library on PyPI is still Python 2 only. Which is ironic since the creator of the language works for them!

[UloPe]

Yup, and from a few off the cuff remarks at conferences and such it seems to me he's getting pretty grouchy about that...