On 03/12/2013 11:47 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 12/03/13 14:20, Mike Nickey wrote:
I'm seeing on StackOverflow that 2.7 is the standard for those that have
libraries that haven't been ported to 3.1.2 yet. Does this mean that 2.7
is dead or dying? Is this just a well managed marketing campaign?
Like any software the latest version will eventually predominate. But
since many libraries have not been ported to v3 yet 2.7 is still very
much alive and still being supported. I seem to recall it being stated
that 2.7 is the last of the v2 Python family but that it will be
receiving updates/fixes for some time yet.
It's not a marketing campaign but the normal process of migrating from
one version to a newer, incompatible, version.
It also depends on what platform you're developing for. On Red Hat boxes
2.6.6 is the "standard" for RHEL 6. From what I understand, RHEL 7 will
not be Python 3 yet, either.
If you don't have any platform restrictions, then 3.3 is the way to go.
Leam
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