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Sun Mar 23 18:45:27 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-March/133416.html

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:33 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>wrote:

> Am 23.03.14 17:22, schrieb Guido van Rossum:
> > At Dropbox I work with a large group of very capable developers on
> > several large code bases that are currently in 2.7. We are constantly
> > changing our code to make it more secure (there are several teams
> > specifically in charge of that). And yet porting to Python 3 is
> > completely out of scope, for a variety of reasons.
> >
> > Please stop your wishful thinking.
>
> I can stop expressing it; I don't think I can stop wishing it :-)
>
> If it's really unrealistic that Dropbox will ever port the code
> to Python 3, would you then think that Python 3 is a doomed project,
> since it won't ever see significant usage?
>

No, it's just that the timescale is drastically different.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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