From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:17:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [2.7] bpo-34203: FAQ: improve wording of paragraph about 2.x vs. 3.x (GH-9821) (GH... X-Git-Tag: v2.7.17rc1~106 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a3316931c6042df44b3b342df956cd6a77e8dcd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [2.7] bpo-34203: FAQ: improve wording of paragraph about 2.x vs. 3.x (GH-9821) (GH-12568) (cherry picked from commit 6cd658b1a5cb2413230dbc2d9395d20498be8518) Co-authored-by: Tal Einat https://bugs.python.org/issue34203 --- diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst index e9b3fafbf55f..27f46810c164 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/general.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst @@ -306,14 +306,10 @@ guaranteed that interfaces will remain the same throughout a series of bugfix releases. The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page -`_. There are two production-ready version -of Python: 2.x and 3.x, but the recommended one at this times is Python 3.x. -Although Python 2.x is still widely used, `it will not be -maintained after January 1, 2020 `_. -Python 2.x was known for having more third-party libraries available, however, -by the time of this writing, most of the widely used libraries support Python 3.x, -and some are even dropping the Python 2.x support. - +`_. There are two production-ready versions +of Python: 2.x and 3.x. The recommended version is 3.x, which is supported by +most widely used libraries. Although 2.x is still widely used, `it will not +be maintained after January 1, 2020 `_. How many people are using Python? ---------------------------------