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So the bigger half of developers stick to Python 2 and the smaller other half actually tried migration to Python 3. After 5 years of promoting Python 3 as the f

• sp332 13y ago
  The original plan was for ~5 years as a transition period. Now that most of the popular libraries work with 3, there's a lot less holding people back (note dependency problems affect most of the responders). Also some of the cool features have been back-ported to 2.x so even projects that haven't migrated are benefiting.
• viraptor 13y ago
  From this short survey we can't really know if it's "developers stick to Python 2", or "have tried Python 3, but migrated because of X", or "haven't tried Python 3 yet", or "work daily on a project that will not be ported to Python 3 as long as possible". I would expect that the last group is really big - imagine a company with a huge python 2 codebase. You're not going to just say "let's port everything" without a good reason for it. Even after you do, you have to port and prove all your dependencies are working correctly, only then going for the big projects. So while most people will still describe themselves as people working primarily with python 2, there may be a person or two in their teams, who already work on porting...
• njharman 13y ago
  The reality is that after 5 years of development, i.e. around about now is when the promoting is just starting. A significant number of developers are early adopters who started using 3.x even before it is finished.