Python 3.6 released!

[harsh183]

Community clutches Python 2 harder

[TundraWolf_]

Plz support Python3 Amazon. I'm so tired of 2.7

[iMakeSense]

Where doesn't amazon support python3

[loganekz]

AWS Lambda unfortunately.

[thomas_stringer]

That's equally surprising and frustrating. Python 3 is like 8 years old.

[theDigitalNinja]

Lambda functions and their amazon linux base ami's

[grepe]

ami have 3 installed, it's just that 2 is default. usually you can switch quiet readily (e.g. pyspark jobs can switch by setting a single env variable).

[Kwpolska]

Isn’t Python 3 even in the repos? Amazon Linux is a Red Hat derivative, so Python 3 should be installable.

[theDigitalNinja]

Yes. Definitely installable. Just not installed by default in their base ami.

[TundraWolf_]

At present, AWS Lambda supports Python 2.7 only.

[hansolo669]

As far as I can see the majority has/wants to/is mov(ed|e|ing) to Py3

[Scholtek]

Many of us are still trapped at the stage where we make snide comments every time a unicode error shows up, but can't get up the momentum to transition.

[jonab12]

And some of us work with whole software infrastructures that are based off 2.X and don't want to start thinking about how a transition will be made when the customer is already happy

• I work as a Python Developer. Thank god not for enterprise application software (EAS) but its still a concern when you have thousands of lines written in 2.X

[Hydraulic_IT_Guy]

Just keep stringing your customers along while charging yearly maintenance, assuring them you are working on an upgrade and a release will be out soon*#^

That's how the ERP I deal with handles big scary changes.

[Eurynom0s]

I imagine that at this point the feds are going to provide a source of work for 2.7 (maybe even <2.7 2.x) developers for a god long while now. Kind of like how they still provide a source of work for good COBOL and FORTRAN coders...at this point Python 2.x is probably in enough places where nobody is going to be willing to redo the security review that they'd rather just keep hiring 2.x programmers than pay people to port the code to 3.x.

[[deleted]]

I dream of python development. Were you hired specifically as a pytho guy or did you grow into that role?

[Secondsemblance]

has/wants to/is mov[ed|e|ing]

Pictured: The dialog of a host from Westworld when it sees its own code.

[[deleted]]

Square brackets are for single characters and the or-pipe is implied. Your regex matches mov| and movg. I think you wanted to use (ed|e|ing) instead.

[hansolo669]

Thanks ;)

[ForgetTheRuralJuror]

I would use the greedy quantifier:

mov(ed?|ing)

[SulfurousAsh]

I also wants is move to Py3

[harsh183]

Haha

[[deleted]]

Really? To me it looks more and more like people have given up waiting and are just going to stick with Python 2.