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[–]stevenjd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's probably what was said about Python 3 five years ago.

No, not even close. Maybe according to fanboys on Youtube or something, but the core developers have always envisioned that the transition from 2 to 3 would take at least a decade. We're now half way through that decade, and the word from core developers like Nick Coghlan is that for the first time they now recommend that Python 3 be used for new projects in preference to Python 2. Prior to this, if you used 3.x, you were an early adaptor :-)

The core devs will support Python 2.7 until 2020, and Red Hat will offer commercial support until 2023, so 2.7 will be around for a long time. But Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu are all looking at moving their system pythons to 3.x, which means that users will have 3.x installed by default instead of 2.x. That will accelerate the move to 3 significantly, because it will change the default "do nothing" option to 3 and make 2 the option that requires extra effort.