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Are any plans for Python 3.x on GAE known?

Speculation: A Python 3.x runtime might be the mystery annoucement promised for the Google Cloud Platform Live event on March 25. Unless it's a Node runtime?

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my $$ is on a node runtime, assuming google is interested in increasing the # of people that use it. python 3 would be nice but it probably wont get people interested like node would.

Agreed. However, Node doesn't really fit their request based abstraction as Node assumes to have a long running server that holds things in memory (like Socket.io connections). But I haven't really used Node enough to make statements like this, so correct me if I'm wrong.

that sounds about right. I wasn't thinking about it from the technical end. I was just speculating the business angle.

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