MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

kovidgoyal · 02-13-2011, 07:56 PM

I sometimes think it will be easier to just maintain python 2.x myself. I already patch and hand compile python 2.x for the calibre binaries. Cleaning up the language is all very nice, but I have yet to see an actual benefit to using python 3, given that I long ago trained myself to workaround the quirks in python 2 that python 3 addresses.

About the only thing that would convince me to start a migration effort is if PyQt dropped support for python 2.x. Or someone wrote a really large and really useful library for python 3 only, that I for some reason felt unable to port. I don't see either of those happening anytime in the forseeable future.

02-13-2011, 07:56 PM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,450 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I sometimes think it will be easier to just maintain python 2.x myself. I already patch and hand compile python 2.x for the calibre binaries. Cleaning up the language is all very nice, but I have yet to see an actual benefit to using python 3, given that I long ago trained myself to workaround the quirks in python 2 that python 3 addresses. About the only thing that would convince me to start a migration effort is if PyQt dropped support for python 2.x. Or someone wrote a really large and really useful library for python 3 only, that I for some reason felt unable to port. I don't see either of those happening anytime in the forseeable future. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 02-13-2011 at 07:59 PM.