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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Sam Bull wrote:

>I thought there was a plan to support python3 in 14.04?
...
>Using Python over our existing Java implementation would reduce our app
>size by around 100x (assuming python3 is pre-installed), and create a
>much more reliable, stable and efficient app.

I'm not sure this is relevant to your original question, but we've had a
long-standing goal in Ubuntu at-large to promote Python 3 as the default, and
to remove Python 2 from default installs.

For 14.04, we won't be able to demote Python 2 to universe.  It's likely
unfeasible to remove it from the default desktop image yet, but I *am*
confident we'll be able to have only Python 3 on the default touch (and
possibly server) images.

That's a different question than whether Python is supported in the SDK, and
not my decision.  But if it ever were to be supported, it would have to be
Python 3.

Cheers,
-Barry

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