Python, Windows, and Cygwin

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> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:54:19 -0400
> From: Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> > >> Why are you using Cygwin's Python?
> > >
> > > Why not?
> >
> >   Because the Latest Release is Always Better(TM)!  We all know that,
> > right?  ;-)
> 
> 
> Re Py3, the issue at hand is that the community has been planning Py3 for
> years and has agreed to move to it.  This migration is like a slinky, and

And by what authority do you claim to know the will of the "community"?

> Any new Python-based projects should be Py3 based.  It's self-defeating to
> do anything else.

Of course your way is the only way.  (I already knew that...)

> Any new Python programmers should learn Py3 to start with so they don't have
> to unlearn the poor programming practices that are no longer supported in
> Py3.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just have said "Python 2.x has been
officially deprecated"??  (compared to a slinky...???)