New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by bkudria » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 2:00 PM UTC

New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3
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Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by cpburns2009 » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:15 PM UTC

This presentation could use some navigation buttons.

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by edoceo » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

cpburns2009 wrote: post #2

This presentation could use some navigation buttons.

The buttons are on your keyboard. Swipe on touch interface

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

I'm impressed how much Python seems stuck on older versions. What went wrong?

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by rjgonza » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:30 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #4

I'm impressed how much Python seems stuck on older versions. What went wrong?

Python 3 came about with a split in the community.

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by SloopJon » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #4

I'm impressed how much Python seems stuck on older versions. What went wrong?

One of the chapters added in the second edition of Peopleware quotes from a presentation by Steve McMenamin: "People hate change ... and that’s because people hate change ... I want to be sure that you get my point. People really hate change. They really, really do."

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by howard941 » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:38 PM UTC

cpburns2009 wrote: post #2

This presentation could use some navigation buttons.

For some reason only the arrows and page up/down work. Sometimes.

edit 4 grammar

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by web007 » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:38 PM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #3

cpburns2009 wrote: post #2

This presentation could use some navigation buttons.

The buttons are on your keyboard. Swipe on touch interface

I don't expect to have to use my keyboard to navigate a webpage. It's also not discoverable or prompted in any way.

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by ajross » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:39 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #4

I'm impressed how much Python seems stuck on older versions. What went wrong?

It wasn't broke and they fixed it. Python 2 is a mature language with a robust ecosystem. Those just don't go away no matter how much developers nag people to upgrade.

Re: New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

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Post by Jach » Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

xutopia wrote: post #4

I'm impressed how much Python seems stuck on older versions. What went wrong?

Because after nearly 10 years this mediocre list is the best they can offer as consolidation for breaking your code, and for much of that time they didn't have everything it does now. If py3k shipped with something like https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/13/from-__past__-impor... there probably would have been more uptake.