Comments on: Poll: Python Version

By: Atik Agewan

Atik Agewan — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:09:27 +0000

i am using 2.6 python version

By: Jim Denney

Jim Denney — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:55:38 +0000

I have a project at the moment where I am trying to use 3.1 and making good progress. Luckily it does not need libraries which have not yet been ported. But for most things it is that latter factor that dictates I am continuing to use 2.6 for most work.

By: Paddy3118

Paddy3118 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:15:25 +0000

I write far more programs for Rosetta Code where I don’t have much legacy issues, except occasionally having to make a program work in both 2.x and 3.x when prompted.

By: sohbet siteleri

sohbet siteleri — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:50:30 +0000

Checkboxes would work better than ratio buttons, because I use both 2.6 (system default Python) where possible, and 2.5 for apps that are not compatible with 2.6.

By: Dixtosa

Dixtosa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:50:57 +0000

python 2.5 ->stable with no bugs

By: selsine

selsine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:09:40 +0000

I do find it a bit interesting that so many people are still using 2.5 and 2.6, although when I think about it I guess I really shouldn’t given that I’m in the same boat.

Thanks for the answers everyone, and I appreciate everyone who took the time to explain their decisions.

I may change the poll as some suggested to allow people to select more then one versions.

Thanks again!

mark.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:30 +0000

Still running 2.5 because some std libs caused failures when attempting to run under 2.6 and I haven’t yet taken the time to chase it down.

By: Catherine Devlin

Catherine Devlin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:18:17 +0000

2.6 is my compromise between “getting the awesome new language features” and “being able to use the full range of packages and tools.” I can’t wait for that compromise boundary to move up into 3.x land.

By: joaquin

joaquin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:09:41 +0000

Probably many people is using more than one version. It would be interesting to look at the results allowing to vote for more than one version in order of use. In my case :
2.6 -> 1st (1 point) main
3.1 -> 2nd (2 points) learning, used when libraries are not needed
2.5 -> 3th (3 points) disappearing from my computers. kept just in case
….

Summing all the votes for each version would give a more clear view of the situation

By: David Avraamides

David Avraamides — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:52:32 +0000

Like others, I’ve wanted to move to 3.x but too many of the packages I depend on aren’t available under 3.x yet. It seems we are caught in this catch-22: people aren’t moving to 3.x because of package dependencies, and the package maintainers aren’t prioritizing 3.x support because not that many of their users have moved to 3.x.