Mertz D. Picking a Python Version: A Manifesto

Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2015. — 44 p.This report guides you through the implicit decision tree of choosing what Python version, implementation, and distribution is best suited for you. It weighs and discusses the merits of each of these choices, and briefly discusses the reasons each option exists.Python Versions
The (Small) Break
Moving Forward
Unix-Like Systems
Python 3 on Fedora and Red Hat
Python 3 on Ubuntu
Python 3 Uptake
Downloads from python.org
Downloads from the Python Package Index
A 2013/2014 Survey
Is It Enough?
Python 3.5 Release SchedulePorting
2to3
six.py
Python-Future
Library SupportAdvantages of Python 3.x
Unicode Handling
The Greatly Improved Email and Mailbox Modules
The concurrent.futures Module
Coroutine Support and yield from
The asyncio Module
Views and Iterators Everywhere
Function Annotations
Other Things
super() with No Arguments
The str.format() Mini-Language
The argparse Module
The itertools Module Keeps Getting Better
pip EverywhereOther Implementations
PyPy
PyPy-STM
Jython
IronPython
Cython
Numba
Chapter 5. Python Distributions
Continuum Analytics’ Anaconda
Enthought’s Canopy
ActiveState’s ActivePython