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Lots of good stuff in here. Python 3.5 may actually be what finally convinces me to move to Python 3 (that, and the end of Python 2.7 support coming up in a fe
by lambda 11y ago
Lots of good stuff in here.
Python 3.5 may actually be what finally convinces me to move to Python 3 (that, and the end of Python 2.7 support coming up in a few years).
The new async stuff, finally fixing some of the problems with byte strings that made them not really an adequate replacement for Python 2.x strings, and os.scandir is a substantial performance improvement over os.listdir plus calls to stat (though os.scandir, at least, is also available in Python 2.7 via PyPI).
- inglor 11y agoLet's not forget https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/ which looks really promising
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- ngoldbaum 11y agoFor what it's worth, even if the core Python developers discontinue support for 2.7 (and they might not, it was originally supposed to EOL this year), there is enough Python 2.7 code running in the wild, making people money, that some entity will certainly take over maintenance responsibilities. Python 2.7 is here to stay for a very long time if only because of the huge amount of legacy code written in it.
- Animats 11y ago"Python 2.7 is here to stay for a very long time if only because of the huge amount of legacy code written in it." True. It might even outlive Python 3, just as Perl 5 looks like it will outlive Perl 6.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoIt will stick around like Perl4 did and then fade away with time.