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The future of Python

by EToS on 9/25/14, 12:14 AM with 2 comments

  • by wodenokoto on 9/25/14, 6:11 AM

    For scientific computing and machine learning Python is quite big, but it is all 2.x.

    Moreover, many people in the scientific community applying machine learning are biologists, neuroscientists, physicists and linguists. These people are NOT experience developers. These are experienced scientists.

    What is needed for these people to move to 3.x is mostly adequate library support and a good reason. Many of these will have a hard time understanding why they can't just write print "string" anymore.