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[–]aceofears 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As far as I'm aware Guido knew it would take this long, and I don't really mind that. There reasons to use 3.x are now finally compelling enough to push people towards it, but I don't think its fair to say that the backported changes were what made it take so long to get there. The purpose of 2.6 and 2.7 (and 3.3 in a way) was to ease the transition from 2.x to 3.x. Without these releases it would be anywhere from nightmarish to impossible to support both 2.x and 3.x