I'm honestly interested in finding out at least one serious project using Python 3 in a production environment. Everyone I know that earns a living programming and does Python development refuses to run their apps in production under Python 3. Many of them are willing to provide Python 3 support for libraries they develop so it's not the case that they don't want Python 3 to be successful it just they are not willing to take the risk or can't make the change due to dependencies that are not supported.
Just curious, how much Python code base is related to web development? The reason I ask, it seems these type of arguments I see seem to center around Python being used among web developers. But Python is being used in so many different domains. So it may be true Python 3 may not be used a lot in production in the web development world, but in the scientific and data analysis world, Python 3 is being used widely. I don't have numbers to back it up, but at my Fortune 500 company, we use Python for data or statistical analysis. The Python 3 code we use, use the full scientific stack (et. el. numpy, scipy, matplotlib) without problems. We are using Python 3 for making critical business decisions, which include whether or not our company will issue million+ dollar recalls.
So basically I am trying to say that we should remind ourselves that Python is being used in other domains besides web development.
I work with web and computer games. Everybody i know uses Python 2. I have yet to see a company of significance using Python 3. In fact: i don't know of a single company using Python 3 I think.
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u/reallyserious May 26 '14
Where are you going with this? Am I supposed to read this as people using py3 don't do meaningful things?