Re: [orca-list] Regarding the migration to Python 3

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I think it'll be fine.  I think my Ubuntu installation has both as
well.  Not being a Pythonista, I've never understood why there are two
versions still in active use.  Isn't Python 3 the better one of the
two?  Why aren't more people using it as the default?  I've seen most
python programs written with some variant of python 2 and most of the
textbooks and introductory books I've come across only seem to feature
2 and rarely 3.  I'm guessing this will make Orca faster and/or more
responsive somehow?

Alex M.



On 5/1/12, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> Krishnakant mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> > There is still a problem with many libraries not working well with Python
> > 3.
> > So what if I need python 2X still to be the default on my machine?
>
> That's fine. My machine (Debian) has Python 2.7 and Python 3 both installed
> in
> parallel, and:
> jason jdc:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/python
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 25 08:52 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7
>
> So 2.7 is the default, but any script that needs Python 3 can just do this
> in
> its first line:
> #!/usr/bin/python3
> although I understand that the proper way to do it is
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
> which works as long as python3 is somewhere in $PATH.
>
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