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cuemacro / finmarketpy

Python library for backtesting trading strategies & analyzing financial markets (formerly pythalesians)

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Python 3 vs Python 2.7 #1

Open haoxian-zhao opened 9 years ago

haoxian-zhao commented 9 years ago

First, Thanks very much and congratulation on the first release of pythalesians!!!

I am not sure whether "Github Issue" is the right place to ask question so please let me know if it is not.

Could you please share some of your thought why you prefer to start with python 3 instead of python 2.7? I thought the mainstream for data analysis is still python 2.7 or this is no longer the case? cheers

saeedamen commented 9 years ago

I'm hoping the future to make it compatible with Python 2.7. Initially, I had thought to use Python 3.4 simply because it's newer version, but now realise a lot of funds are actually using Python 2.7 (more libraries are available for it).

jnmclarty commented 9 years ago

Came to issues section looking for this. Can confirm, our stack is 2.6 (legacy only, no new work), and all 2.7 with no immediate plans to upgrade beyond experimenting. Likely a late 2016 thing, to move to 3.4/3.5.