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Well, the authors of frameworks and libraries still on Python 2 and without having concrete upgrade plans will have to either do something soon or others will take their space.

Python 3 is here, now.

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> the authors of frameworks and libraries still on Python 2 and without having concrete upgrade plans will have to either do something soon or others will take their space.

Do you know of anything new on PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) ? Or any similar library that might replace it for Python 3?

PythonMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/download/python/) works in Python3. PIL with Python3 support is coming later, apparently.

Pillow (https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow) is a fork of PIL. If you look at recent commits, you'll see one that claims to make it more Python 3 friendly, but not quite Python 3 compatible because of differences in the C code. So maybe a good opportunity for someone to jump in and fix that.

There's what claims to be a Python 3 version of the codebase on Christoph Gohlke's Python packages for Windows page (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil). I haven't tested it.

There is also Wand (http://dahlia.kr/wand/index.html), which, while still alpha, is a very nice ctypes-based, MagickWand API binding. It is also available in pypi, so is easy to install. Support for Python 3 is near-term goal of the project.

Until Numpy and Scipy are on Python 3, I'm going to reserve judgement. Python 3 might be here, now, for some things, but there are enough essential libraries out there that aren't, that it's not for most.

I think they already are: http://scipy.github.com/faq.html#do-numpy-and-scipy-support-...

Also, Python 3 will be shipped with the next ubuntu version https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alp...

A trivial search would show that they are on Python 3 (and have been for some time now).

Almost all the Python code I've written in the past year has been in Python 3. The libraries you mention have been ported already, as have many other important ones, such as sqlalchemy, lxml, httplib2, and imminently, Django.

Very early on I had plenty of headaches where some library I needed was Python 2.X only, but that's becoming increasingly rare.

Edit: s/eminently/imminently/

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