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The only thing really "keeping" me on Python 2.x is how easy it is to host it. Although Flask/Django/Bottle all support Python 3, most (if not all) PaaS providers I have used only support Python 2.7.

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Heroku supports 3.x fine, IIRC.

Looks like you are correct [1] - this was not the case last time I checked. Thanks!

Any others?

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-runtimes

A problem with hosting Django on Python 3 on Heroku though is that you need to use something else (like s3) for staticfiles. Boto doesn't support python 3 yet, so you can't use the django-storages implementation. The Heroku documentation recommends using dj-static as an alternative to s3, but dj-static relies on a library that was last updated in 2009.

New Relic seems to support Python 3 now though, which is nice.

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