[ase-users] ASE-3.13 release candidate

[Michael Walter]

2017-01-23 11:15 GMT+01:00 Gaël Donval via ase-users <
ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk>:

> > We have standardized on "isinstance(..., basestring)" which is easy
> > to
> > change to "isinstance(..., str)" once we drop support for legacy
> > Python
> > (Python 2).
> >
>
> May I shamelessly take advantage of this opportunity to ask how many of
> you (ase users in general) still use ASE with Python 2?
>
> We may figure out that almost no one uses it anymore (I guess Anaconda
> really helps there)! Having a Python 3 GUI was the only reason why I
> kept the Python 2 version and I wouldn't be surprised many shared that
> reason (thanks again for the great work!).
>
> More realistically, many may still be stuck on the Python 2 version and
> now seems to be a good time to say why.
>

Unfortunately not all HPC systems have python3. So there is need for
python2.

Best,
Michael


>
> Cheers,
> Gaël
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