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by mrweasel 4088 days ago
Honestly I thought that we where done with 2 vs. 3. Every new project we start is Python 3 and I don't hear anyone in the office preferring Python 2.

Dealing with Scandinavian languages having the Python 3 Unicode support is the killer feature in Python 3, it just make everything so much easier. In terms of performance it's fine and library support is no longer an issue (for us at least), everything we use just works.
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coldtea 4087 days ago
Yeah, perhaps your experience in your office is not generally representative?

In PIP, Python 3 has like 5% uptake...

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mrweasel 4087 days ago
What do you mean with "In PIP"? Are only 5% of the pip downloads from Python 3? That would make sense seeing as pip is included in Python 3.4, so there no need to download it.

If you mean that only 5% of the packages on pypi.python.org is Python 3, I would say that sound a bit low. Also unimportant for most, if it's just the correct 5%. There's also a ton of old cruft on pypi.python.org that would count against Python 3, but not really be important to anyone.

Quick check, there are 7633 Python 2 in the package index (https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=527) and 8949 for Python 3 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=533)

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coldtea 4087 days ago
Neither downloads of PIP, nor packages in PyPI.

I was talking about versions of Python used to download packages off of PyPI (with pip et al).

As of 2014/1, those accounted for < 5% of the downloads, with 2.X being the rest:

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/

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mrweasel 4087 days ago
Aaah okay, makes sense. I would like to see new stats though. It wasn't until Python 3.3 we started switching, before to many 3rd party libraries where missing.

Still I don't see much reason to not switch at this point. I don't believe that most developers would be missing anything.

Small note: We run our own pypi server for a large number of packages, so our Python 3 installations aren't counted for everything, but the same should be true for many Python 2 setups.

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