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List:       python-dev
Subject:    Re: [Python-Dev] An example of Python 3 promotion attitude
From:       Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-10-08 0:43:29
Message-ID: 02ED7A0A-FEE1-4E75-9D8F-CE0313FF8A7A () gmail ! com
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> On Oct 7, 2015, at 7:12 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6 October 2015 at 21:29, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now I sometimes feel that there is not enough sentiment in python-dev
>> to distance from such ideas. It *is* python-dev job to promote
>> python3, but it's also python-dev job sometimes to point out that
>> whatever helps in promoting the python ecosystem (e.g. in case of pypy
>> is speed) is a good enough reason to do those things.
>> 
>> I wonder what are other people ideas about that.
> 
> It's not generally python-dev's job to promote Python 3 either - folks
> are here for their own reasons, and that's largely a shared aim of
> making a better programming language and other tools for our own
> future use (whatever those use cases may be). 

I concur.  Our responsibilities are to make Python 3 into an effective
tool that makes people *want* to adopt it and to be honest with
anyone who asks us about the pros and cons of switching over.


Raymond
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