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I know the decision has been made, but I'll just pile on and state the official end of life for python 2 is in less than 2 years, so no more security fixes or anything beyond that point. On Mar 7, 2018 4:54 PM, "Jay Luker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I would add a recommendation for pyenv as a way to manage multiple versions of python on a machine. Very helpful, particularly if you need to run tests under multiple versions with something like tox. https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv —jay On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:35 PM Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I agree. Third party support for Python3 is pretty good now. But if you > have any dependencies you know you're going to need it's a good idea to > check beforehand. > > There's also the six module if you want to be able to say you support 2 > and 3, and want a nice way of papering over the differences. > > http://six.readthedocs.io/ > > //Ed > > > On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:31 PM, Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > I'd suggest Python 3. > > > > There are mechanisms for managing virtual environments for Python, like > penv, which make it easy to install and switch between versions without > confusing the system. > > > > -Tod >