[petsc-dev] Python version

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 4, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Hi Jed,
> 
> interesting, thanks for sharing. I don't think that there is a significant difference for PETSc users, since most Python installations come from package repositories (as shown on the page). On clusters I'd say that there is a slight bias towards older versions in general, not just Python.
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> The article has massive selection bias: all people surveyed are actively using Python in their work. Many PETSc users don't write Python at all, PETSc is just using it for the build. If latter population was as up-to-date as these astro folks, we'd be able to drop compatibility for 10-year old versions of Python and upgrade a lot of cruddy code.
   
   Yup, 3.3 all the way :-)
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> Best regards,
> Karli
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> On 02/04/2013 07:06 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> Astro is doing a great job of staying up to date. I wonder what the
> version distribution looks like for PETSc users.
> 
> http://astrofrog.github.com/blog/2013/01/13/what-python-installations-are-scientists-using/
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