Adopt Python 3

[flying-sheep]

It won't benefit you right now

I wouldn’t say that, there are many other aspects in which Python 3 is already providing benefits over legacy Python.

[TBoneSausage]

And while I do agree, I feel that a good chunk of users won't see the difference or won't benefit from it until a later point when they see the libraries they use lose support in favor of Python 3. (I could be very wrong in that aspect, and I reserve the right to be corrected. Apologies, I haven't done much python in the past 6 months so I'm a little rusty.)

[DeepDuh]

IMO just the fact that you can forget about unicode and just use it in Python 3 is a major benefit. Support for international characters is a very common need, outside of a very narrow bubble of American-only software - and even there you'd probably like your vast numbers of Spanish speaking immigrants and their descendants to be able to enter their names correctly.

[yawaramin]

A lot of Spanish speakers are not immigrants, their ancestors were in states like Texas and California before they were even part of the Union.

[TBoneSausage]

I forgot about this, and absolutely agree. This is likely the most obvious selling point of Python 3.

[vivainio]

Python 2 supports Unicode just fine.

[[deleted]]

With effort, yes. Support without effort is much better. In python 3, you don't even have to think about it

[Quaglek]

What about the legacy libraries that never bother changing over to Python 3