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by ff0066mote 5207 days ago
I've been using Python2 now for 4 years but have been dragging my feet upgrading to Python3.

Finally, I started learning it just a month ago and now I don't know what ever stopped me before. In fact, the most annoying thing I've found about Python3 is that my searches for documentation on DDG or Google all go to the Python2 docs.
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backprojection 5207 days ago
My impression is that the slowness to adopt python3 is mostly about fashion than anything else, not that there aren't solid, technical reasons to stay with python2. The main thing for me is availability of numpy/scipy packages for python 3.
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baq 5207 days ago
s/fashion/fear/ with a small pinch of missing libraries, as you said (btw i hear numpy is getting there.)
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Estragon 5207 days ago
numpy/scipy/matplotlib have been there for about a year, according to http://pythonsprints.com/2011/04/8/matplotlib-python-3-thank...

(I am dragging my feet on this, too.)

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