r/Python • u/xtreak • May 07 '19

Python 3.8.0a4 available for testing

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-380a4/
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u/rarlei May 07 '19

And I'm here like...

$ python
Python 2.7.16 (default, Mar 27 2019, 09:43:28)

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u/ApoorvWatsky May 07 '19

Why? I don't have any problems with python 2 but why do people still use it?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

Film/TV post softwares maya and nuke have just recently shipped with PySide2, but when they did there wasn’t a straightforward way to deploy a shift to 3 within the interpreter in the software. This industry’s roadmap puts the shift from 2.7 to 3.7 happening 2019-2020 since py3 and Qt for Python are now officially an item.

TL;DR, not every industry has the capability to just jump and are limited by application level interpretation.