<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px">I think it would help if in this phrase we say why we recommend using Python 3. <br><div><span>-Michiel</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, October 2, 2015 6:11 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Michiel de Hoon <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mjldehoon@yahoo.com" href="mailto:mjldehoon@yahoo.com">mjldehoon@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Is there a reason that Biopython should recommend using Python 3<br clear="none">> (e.g. are there any modules that work with Python 3 but not with Python 2)?<br clear="none">> If not, I don't think we should make this recommendation.<br clear="none">> -Michiel<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If anything there could be some less well used corners of the code<br clear="none">which were written and work on Python 2, but still need tweaking<br clear="none">for Python 3. Hopefully not, but you never know.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">When I wrote "We currently recommend using Python 3.5 ..." I was<br clear="none">thinking of the wider Python ecosystem as a whole and long term.<br clear="none">Python 2 is going away, so for newcomers and new projects we<br clear="none">really should now encourage starting with Python 3.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Did you like Eric's phrasing Michiel?:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"We currently recommend using Python 3.5 from http://www.python.org.<br clear="none">Biopython will also work with earlier Python versions 3.4, 3.3, and the<br clear="none">legacy Python versions 2.7 and 2.6."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We could swap "recommend" with "suggest" to make this less<br clear="none">forceful?<div class="yqt1794408556" id="yqtfd16869"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Peter<br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>