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Re: Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey

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Post by bru » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC

svisser wrote: post #6

bru wrote: post #2

Last year a survey was conducted on python 2 and 3 usage. It sparkled interesting discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990481 "Python 2.x vs 3.x use survey" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005711 " Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results" Here is the 2014 edition, slightly updated (from 9 to 11 questions). It should not take you more than 1 minute to fill. I would be pleased if you took that time.…

Where will the results be published?

On python.org as well as where I published the survey: here, python-dev@python.org, comp.lang.python, /r/python and /r/programming

Re: Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey

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Post by apaprocki » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #50

Let's be honest. The fact that surveys like this are still around 6 long years later has just become boring. I have moved to Python 3 purely because of asyncio. There is no other reason that I have found Python 3 to be compelling for. When I write Python 3 now, I feel like my favourite language has gone all "serious" on me, like it wanted to grow up, and has lost a lot of its charisma on the way. I actually liked the…

FYI, there will be an official 3.x library for BLPAPI at some point in the not-to-distant future.

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