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Some thoughts on Python 3 adoption

IMHO, every Python community member should try to promote Python 3. I know there are criticisms about Python 3 -- whatever it is, " Python 3 is the present and future of the language ". Constructive criticisms should be welcomed and that should lead to better Python 3.x releases. As a community member what we can do to promote Python 3 ? I am looking forward to your thoughts on this.  Please write your comments here or you can write it in your blog and leave a link here. Before giving any new suggestions, let me check what are the small things that I have tried. In the beginning of 2011, I have created a website with the help of other community members to increase the adoption of Python 3 by collecting issues in a central location.  That idea didn't worked well, then I dropped that project. I have given a lightning talk about that project during PyCon 2011 in Atlanta . I have tried to use Python 3 for my personal projects and written blogs about my experience . ...
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Moving from Python to Java :(

For last 9 months my company was developing an enterprise application. Our main language was Python. Its going to implement all over India by next few months. Next month we will start our new project, Java will be our main language. Now I started refreshing my Java. And this is one thought came to me today, when I looked into Strings in Java. One of Python's primary design principle is that: "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules." That is, the language should avoid having privileged features that you can't reuse for other purposes. The consequence of this principle is, more generalisation of syntax and semantics of a language. In Python : (of course, there are better ways) age = 9 print "He is " + str(age) + " years old." In Java: int age = 9; String s = "He is " + age + " years old."; System.out.println(s); Concatenating string and integer like this is possible in Java, because it is a "spec...
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Partial content in planets (A Request)

Philipp , Martin & Kevin : I used to read planet.plone.org using an offline feed agregator. I really like your blog posts (I never missed a single one). I have one request, could you add full content to your feeds for planets ? I could have asked this question offline, but I thought other bloggers who only give a link or part of content to planets may add their full content to their feeds. I wonder whether there is any other aspect which I don't see which prevents them from adding full content to feeds. One issue which I can see is that, very long posts may clutter the planets, but I think planets can fix it with a new design which only shows a part of the content and a link to view full content. (Feel free to make comments here )
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