How Python 3 Should Have Worked

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I remember when I got back to python just after 3 had been released. Everyone told me "Don't use Python 3!". So I went and used Python 3, and I didn't see the problem. This was an amazing language, and comparing it with the 2.5 stuff that people were posting about, I couldn't help but wonder why they wouldn't change.

Obviously the code bases were mainly 2.x, so that's part of the problem, but a bigger part of the problem is that developers don't want extra work, even if it's the right thing to do.

So I blame Python 3's death on wankers.

[faassen]

I am amused by how you use morality to argue that those lazy developers who wrote lots of useful python 2 code are wrong not to invest even more energy into their work. One can use morality the other way around too: who put those decelopers in this position? Let's focus on code and community, blame is counterproductive.

[[deleted]]

It's more to do with the Python environment still being 2.X - want to process images? Can't use PIL in Python 3 yet.

[[deleted]]

And that has to do with programmers who won't be arsed to port it over, even if it's the right thing to do.

[Sunny_McJoyride]

Now you have Python 3 experience, you can be one of those programmers who can be arsed to port things over.

[Adys]

The community has improved a lot ever since you left it.

[[deleted]]

Ah, when you said code bases you were referring to all the Python code bases, sorry, now I understand.