The future of Python

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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.

most scientists are pretty intelligent people and will research the reasons.. Also in order to be affected by this issue, you would need to have a large code base extending beyond numpy/scipy which now support 3.x.. So they probably do qualify as experienced developers

In the end these ppl will catch up, and it's our jobs to help them, but waiting for them could be how the language as a whole will die

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