[itajaja]

I started learning Python a week ago and I sat in front of the computer for hours trying to solve the same dilemma. If you look at famous Python projects, eg Flask, they still advocate for Python 2 over 3 in their documentation[1]. I found it extremely unsettling, to find the python community still so divided, after so many years. I eventually decided to learn Python 3 because I couldn't accept the idea of learning a legacy technology. But until the important projects don't take a strong take in advocating Python 3, I fear the conversion from 2 to 3 will still take a long time. My hope is that the big Python players will start regarding Python 2 as legacy ASAP. From an outsider perspective, this python 2-3 seem ludicrous, and I am sure that it gives a very bad impression of the python community.

[1] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/python3/

[argonaut]

FWIW, that was written 2 years ago.

[itajaja]

That's true, but even not updating such part is a symptom. I don't want to compare different ecosystems and culture, and I am very excited to starting to learn python overall, but you hardly see such things in a project of comparable size in the node or ruby world. As I said, I am loving python and Flask, but this is a symptom that the topic is not as hot as I though it should be.

[argonaut]

Actually, the documentation has been updated, but on the development branch (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/dev/python3/). I was just pointing out that what you were linking to was out of date.