[briancurtin]

If it was dead on arrival, it has risen from the grave quite nicely. I previously linked to two sources showing it has pretty good signs of life: PyPI packages and download numbers (posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3323908).

When it was announced, people did suggest everyone continue on with 2.x, but not just until everyone waits for it to be mainstream (that clearly wouldn't work). No one expected users to drop everything and port right away. As your dependencies come up to speed with 3, try your project with them. Create an experimental branch. Do something to keep up. You don't need to halt your own progress for it, but you shouldn't sit on your hands.

I've been using Python 3 at work for around 2 years now, writing test frameworks and tools in a C++ environment (working on a historical tick database). While a lot of the web people are stuck on 2, and that has been changing for a while and it's only getting better there, a lot of other areas have been available to and have been using Python 3.