Consider the new programmer, or the programmer new to python, or the corporation/workgroup new to python whose focus is not at all python as python but just GSD.
It starts off very encouraging: "Short version: Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language"
Then we skim down to the meat of the page: Which version should I use?
Two short version stating that 3 is great, and you should use it. If you can.
And about 20 paragraphs of caveats.
To the person who's been around the block once or twice, or doesn't want to be seen as that pie in the sky programmer to his boss whose focus is not programming and doesn't give a shit about new, what stands out is "you can use virtually every resource available in 2, and almost mostly totally in 3 also."
And if you're new in any sense, do you really want to spend the time researching if 3 is going to work for you or your group/boss/career? No, you pick 2 and GSD.
When that page is gone, or its caveats are substantially reversed, 3 will be the choice.
Totally agree. And when one of the suggestions for porting to Py3 is "Decide if the feature is really that important. Maybe you could drop it?", you know something is wrong.
Indeed, documentation is another thing that is going to show schisms, not just code. Backwards-incompatibility means that the majority of Python tutorials and books are just going to be broken, and one of the worst experiences I've had is with finding example code/description online for something, only to discover it won't actually work for the latest version.
They read this, or you show it to them: Should I use Python 2 or Python 3 for my development activity? https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
It starts off very encouraging: "Short version: Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language"
Then we skim down to the meat of the page: Which version should I use?
Two short version stating that 3 is great, and you should use it. If you can.
And about 20 paragraphs of caveats.
To the person who's been around the block once or twice, or doesn't want to be seen as that pie in the sky programmer to his boss whose focus is not programming and doesn't give a shit about new, what stands out is "you can use virtually every resource available in 2, and almost mostly totally in 3 also."
And if you're new in any sense, do you really want to spend the time researching if 3 is going to work for you or your group/boss/career? No, you pick 2 and GSD.
When that page is gone, or its caveats are substantially reversed, 3 will be the choice.