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I'd love to use Python 3, but missing library support is definitely the killer for me. There's a list of py3-compatible/incompatible libraries here: http://python3wos.appspot.com/.

If we can pick off a few of those top py3-incompatible libraries, I'd be willing to bet that a shift to py3 would follow. Many of the libraries have long-standing py3 port branches if you'd like to help the effort. For example: https://github.com/boto/boto/tree/py3kport/py3kport.

As far as I'm concerned, there's really very little in the way of me using Python 3. But what is in the way matters. Starting a project without being able to use boto, fabric and gvent would be tough. I like the idea of being able to import Python 2 libraries until they're finally ported over to Python 3 a lot.




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