[Python-Dev] Python 3 is five years old

On 2008-12-03, Python 3.0.0 was released by Barry. I was actually on IRC the night when it happened, with Guido leaving his office across the hall from mine. We gave each other a high-five and then we both went home. Not exactly a party, but I know I at least breathed a sigh of relief that Python 3 was finally real. On this anniversary I just wanted to thank everyone who contributed to making Python 3 happen. Thanks to the core devs who worked hard to make Python better for everyone, even in the face of people yelling at us that we were crazy, killing Python, etc. Thanks to those in the community who stuck by the dev team and had faith we knew what we were doing and have continued to help everyone move forward and off of Python 2 to realize how much more pleasant Python 3 is to work with. At this point I'm willing to say I'm happy with how Python 3 has turned out and how the community has supported it. Python 3.3 was a great release and I think Python 3.4 will be as well. I see no reason to think that the language and community's forward momentum will not continue, leading to a day where Python 2 only exists for people stuck on RHEL. =) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20131204/34e2ba15/attachment.html>