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I wish there were a clearer delineation between developer downloads on PyPI and automated builds, since it seems there's been a bit of a cultural sea change ove

I wish there were a clearer delineation between developer downloads on PyPI and automated builds, since it seems there's been a bit of a cultural sea change over the past year or so in favor of Py3. I'd love to know which version humans are downloading.

coldtea 10y ago
Wouldn't Python 3 ALSO have installations doing automated builds though?
- gbin 10y ago
  Yes but if automated pip installs numbers are way larger than manual installs you end up with projects supporting both with roughly 50-50 numbers. I agree with the parent post: now is the time. Open source projects should to stop supporting py2 in their new major release and cleanup their codebase from the hacks made to support both languages.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >I agree with the parent post: now is the time. Open source projects should to stop supporting py2 in their new major release and cleanup their codebase from the hacks made to support both languages. The danger with this for Python is that it can give the impetus (is that the word?) and motivation for people with py2 legacy projects (which is the majority of people) to say "fuck this" and go try another language that doesn't pull this shit on them. Go, JS with Node, Ruby, whatever... If they're not gonna get compatibility anyway, they might jump ship altogether. At least for green-field projects...