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		BuckRogers on March 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can I Use Python 3? Legacy doesn't mean unused, the definition of a legacy programming language is when no one is choosing it for new projects. Python2 is going to be moving closer to this COBOL-status as people start coding for Python3 and Py2 support becomes more and more of an afterthought until they just stop bothering.

Grue3 on March 11, 2014 [–]

But most new Python projects get started in Python2. It's Python3 that is legacy language by your definition.

BuckRogers on March 12, 2014 | [–]

Even if that were true, which I would disagree that anyone writing a library from scratch today is ignoring Python3- over time it is an inevitability once the core dev team drops support for 2.7

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