Why does Houdini use python 2.7 and not 3.4 and will it be in Houdini 16?

I'd say that 98% of the industry uses 2.6/2.7, moving to 3.x will have to happen eventually, but for now the amount of existing code is terrifyingly huge.

http://www.vfxplatform.com/ [vfxplatform.com]

Yup was just checking that myself before finding this on the forum, so thanks all. And brill found the HDK Doc's, I'll do some other posts on the specifics of some of my daft idea's as I'll need quite a bit of lovely help from you super experienced folks! https://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk/_h_d_k__intro.html [sidefx.com]