[ase-users] ASE-3.13 release candidate

[Toma Susi]

> On 23 Jan 2017, at 11:52, ase-users-request at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk wrote:
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:15:31 +0000
> From: Ga?l Donval <G.Donval at bath.ac.uk <mailto:G.Donval at bath.ac.uk>>
> To: "ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk <mailto:ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk>"
> 	<ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk <mailto:ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk>>
> Subject: Re: [ase-users] ASE-3.13 release candidate
> Message-ID: <1485166531.2319.1.camel at bath.ac.uk <mailto:1485166531.2319.1.camel at bath.ac.uk>>
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>> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ga?l

Hi,

I use ase-gui running on our compute cluster via X11 all the time, and they are not running python3.

Best,
Toma

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