[Live-demo] Python 2 and 3 in the field today

[Brian M Hamlin]

 Here at UC Berkeley, it seems that far more people use the Anaconda distribution  system,than any Debian python packaging. The Mac OS is perhaps more than fifty percentof  serious science users, by casual observation, and the pain and dysfunction of the Windows ecosystem continues to drive many decisions about packages. Python programming is meant to be portable, and it is. That is a substantial portion of the benefitof choosing python.I do not believe that the Debian python packaging policies have much effect on scientific programmers here, whichever OS they use.  --Brian

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:04:33 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg  wrote:

On 11/11/2016 05:24 PM, Brian M Hamlin wrote:
> this article was linked in the YCombinator News feed today..
> 
> https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2016/11/11/python-versions-used-in-commercial-projects-2016-edition.html

It only going to see more adoption now that Ubuntu has switched the
default Python to 3.x since xenial.

The Debian Python Policy also documents the use of Python 3 for programs
when they support it, and recommend to not package them for Python 2.
Libraries should always be packaged for Python 3, and when applications
only support Python 2 should the library be packaged for Python 2 as well.

 https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-python3.html

With QGIS 3 switching to Python 3, adoption in the geospatial ecosystem
will be pushed forward too.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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