Can you cite me 10 awesome and useful libraries that haven't been ported to Python 3 and don't have reasonably equal alternatives?
I know there are some critical libraries to some niches who don't particularly care about recent versions. I know there's a fair amount of libraries that don't work on Python 3 purely because the author used print instead of print(). I know there are apps that can't port to Python 3 because they were designed with some core Python 2 functionality a decade ago (usually unicode/bytes related).
None of these matter to real world devs. User-facing apps don't matter, easy-to-port libs don't matter (fork & fix), niche libs don't matter (if your niche doesn't care about Python 3, you're either here to troll or you're not actually here).
I know it's very "in" to say that Python 3 is dead-on-arrival and all that but it's simply untrue. Anyone who uses a Python 3-based Linux distribution will understand that. Most new devs use Python 2 because they are too lazy to install Python 3 and assume their code won't work; and as soon as they hit a SyntaxError in print they complain that "Python 3 is hard".
You see all these libraries in red? Most of them depend on each other (Twisted is a big one as well as another I forget about) and have excellent alternatives available. Good luck finding 10 that match my criteria; I can't even find one.
Often one does not need 10 reasons, 1 is enough if it's critical enough.
For my case the missing libs in py3 world are
* boto (AWS interface)
* pika (RabbitMQ interface)
Yes, supervisor too, but it can run in a separate Python 2 env.
It's also about fear that next package that we need to progress faster might not support py3.
But confidence builds over time and the list of
Python 3 packages will only improve over time. It will converge to one single Python 3, there is absolutely no doubt.
if your niche doesn't care about Python 3, you're either here to troll or you're not actually here
Please explain. As someone who will be writing Python 2 for the foreseeable future due to niche libraries, I really don't understand what you're trying to get at.
I highly recommend you switch to Postgres which does not have this issue with psycopg2. I know it's not always possible, but seeing as you work with Django it's a generally good idea to spend the effort.
Myself, I was very skeptical, until one day I decided to start my new project in Python 3 and quickly realized that everything isn't that much ruined. Couple of pull requests here and there, could be worse (after reading some of the more... opinionated blog posts I expected something truly catastrophic).
But the new goodness in 3.4 is totally worth it, in my opinion.
Boto, pika, protobuf and thrift are still red, and probably nontrivial to port. It would be interesting to know if str/bytes problems are the main issue though.
I don't really see what could be non-trivial about Protocol Buffers. The encoding's simple to the extent one could probably hack a minimal working implementation over a weekend or another. That is, unless you need not the data format, but the very exact Google's library (which, to my tastes, is severely unpythonic and has an quite weird and bloated codebase - which is probably the issue with porting, but sadly is a dependency for some other libraries).
For adult porn the legal system doesn't really care if they are consenting or real. A special needs teacher called Jane Longhurst was murdered by a guy who enjoyed violent pornography, so now mere depictions of particularly dangerous (and soon non-consensual) sex are made illegal. You could literally have signed written consent proof but if it looks like rape then it lands you in legal trouble because it might turn you into a rapist murderer.
This system doesn't involve hashing, just blocking a blacklist of URLs. Digital forensics labs come across a lot of child porn in their daily work though so it isn't much of an ethical challenge to build a hashlist of illegal material.
Exactly this, voluntourism is an exchange of money for time spent experiencing a very different culture which you can tell other people about for a long time and also feel good while telling stories to kids or laying bricks. Oh and a week long safari according to the article.
There is very little that is altruistic about the practice and an altruistic option is not an option for most people who go on these trips. I don't know what cut of the $3000 the school in the article got, but if it wasn't enough then I'm sure they wouldn't invite a load of useless white kids around to set their construction back.
