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erichurkman on March 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python 3.3.5 has been released

Outdated packages matter insofar as that you must maintain a working 2.x install alongside your 3.x if you use tools that need 2.x.

Hopefully these start disappearing, as Ubuntu and Arch have already moved to 3.x.

leobelle on March 10, 2014 [–]

This has very little to do with Python developers deciding between version 2.7 and 3.x. If you wrote a library or an app in Python 3.x packagers should require the appropriate version of Python as a dependency. Sam with v2. Developers shouldn't worry about that.

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