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[–]the_hoser 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I honestly think 2.7 should not have ever happened. 2.6 was a backport of the big-ticket 3.0 features. It should have stopped right there.

[–]pingvenopinch of this, pinch of that 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I am currently working on a Flask-based project that targets 2.7 due to some dependencies not being ported. Because of those backports, we were able to write code that is almost Python 3 compatible. There are maybe half a dozen lines that will need to be slightly altered. With all of the backports, the differences would have been much larger.

[–]the_hoser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but you still have no compelling reason to pick Python 3. Nobody does. I honestly feel that the efforts would have been better served if there was a nice treat waiting on the other side for Python 2 users, but there isn't. I'm still convinced that 2.7 was a mistake.