27 May
2019
27 May
'19
1:57 a.m.
On Sun, 2019-05-26 at 16:08 -0700, Andrew Kurn wrote:
Why go to Python 3 when Python 2 works perfectly well? . . . especially when so much code depends on Python 2 - ?
I can at least answer this directly:
7 months before python2 isn't supported any more: https://pythonclock.org/
Statement from projects: https://python3statement.org/
Python2 does NOT work perfectly well, Inkscape has horrid support for unicode in extensions because of how terrible python2 unicode handling is. There are very good reasons not to use python2 any more, but we will be careful about moving to python3 as there's a lot of code out there and we've not got a good enough extensions network to get code updated.
Best Regards, Martin Owens