Python 3.4 Is Now Available With New Features

[shaurz]

This is a bit OT: but why don't use pyqt?

If only it was that easy! I'm not going to re-write large projects in Qt. And I use it in my day job too on a product with 375,000 lines of Python and 4+ years of investment in the codebase.

[Thaodan]

I use 3.x whenever I can, but inevitably it only gets used for small scripts. Bigger projects that use wxWidgets for example are still stuck at 2.7.

This is a bit OT: but why don't use pyqt?

[shaurz]

It's a while since I looked at Python. Is everyone still ignoring the version 3.x branch in favour of writing 2.x version code because thet can't be bothered to update their code or because of modules that only support 2.x?

I use 3.x whenever I can, but inevitably it only gets used for small scripts. Bigger projects that use wxWidgets for example are still stuck at 2.7.

[Delgarde]

It's a while since I looked at Python. Is everyone still ignoring the version 3.x branch in favour of writing 2.x version code because thet can't be bothered to update their code or because of modules that only support 2.x?

Yeah, pretty much, which is unfortunate - Python 3 has some seriously important features, most notably the consistent use of unicode strings internally (Python 2 supported unicode types, but you'd end up doing charset conversions every time you called a library function).

[xgt001]

It's a while since I looked at Python. Is everyone still ignoring the version 3.x branch in favour of writing 2.x version code because thet can't be bothered to update their code or because of modules that only support 2.x?

When I looked at it I remember wanting to query a Mysql database, but the module only existed for 2.x, and I had no interest in writing for an outgoing version. But it turns out it wasn't outgoing. The old version is still limping on.

I just stick to Perl now.

It's sadly true, I am writing a Flask based backend and at the moment, 3.x branch of Flask is still WIP. But I am pretty assured that 2.x branch will stay atleast for 4-5 years down the line because of the massive number of libraries that support 2.x exclusively. I recon that the latest bugfix release for Python 2.x was done pretty recently

[kaprikawn]

It's a while since I looked at Python. Is everyone still ignoring the version 3.x branch in favour of writing 2.x version code because thet can't be bothered to update their code or because of modules that only support 2.x?

When I looked at it I remember wanting to query a Mysql database, but the module only existed for 2.x, and I had no interest in writing for an outgoing version. But it turns out it wasn't outgoing. The old version is still limping on.

I just stick to Perl now.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Python 3.4 Is Now Available With New Features

Python 3.4.0 is now available as the latest major update to the popular programming language...

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