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zapadoo
18y ago
Certain libraries (both standard and 3rd party) perform significantly better - in part because there appear to be some performance improvements in 2.6 which 3.0 also benefits from. Standard ElementTree (pure python) is roughly 40% faster in
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zapadoo
18y ago
UNICODE support would be reason enough to answer "what's the point". Also, some operations in Python 3, particularly those that are relevant to me as a web application developer, are as fast as 2.6 and in fact significantly faster than 2.5.