As python 3.X becomming more and more popular,Can we developers take developing biopython that support python 3.X into consideration? I am a newer to biopython and find that biopython doesn't support python 3.X. It's really frustrated. Thank you !

There's a good chance NumPy will support Python 3 in a stable release sometime this year -- it's a stated goal of theirs, but getting there has been difficult. Once NumPy makes the switch, Biopython and probably a number of other scientific libraries for Python will start making sure 2to3 conversion works properly.

Biopython generally works with the development releases of Python 2.7, so there's a good chance converting to Python 3 with the 2to3 script will be mostly painless.

Python 3 will only become widely used in sciences once numpy (the numerical library) gets ported from the version 2 of python. I would recommend staying with the 2.X line for the next year or two.

In fact, I have started to consider the possibility that the 3.X line will never get the sufficient traction to be popular in sciences.

Although converting to python 3 is painful and tedious for many of the programmers who are familiar with python 2.However, if we are still hesitating we may lose the chance while other people or oragnisition may develop another biology analytical tool using python 3.

I am a newbie to programming and I recently got the O'Reilly "Bioinformatics Programming Using Python" book. This covers Python 3 and now I am in a fix - whether I should learn programming using Python 3 or should I get an older edition of the book which covers Python 2.x.

But from what I have read above I understand that by the development of the modules for Python 3.x is going on pretty well and also the Biopython github has this message posted - "Python 3 support is still incomplete, but the majority of modules are already functional." So I guess by the time I learn Python the numpy module and Biopython are ready for show time.