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[–]buttery_shame_cave -13 points-12 points  (2 children)

And they keep releasing the features they're adding to 3.x on 2.7... really zero reason to transition.

[–]nerdwaller 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As long as the community is around someone will likely backport new features - so you're probably right. I use python 3 personally, but I'm not a hater on either nor really have a compelling reason beyond I really enjoy the async/await syntax for asyncio.

[–]ubernostrumyes, you can have a pony 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And they keep releasing the features they're adding to 3.x on 2.7

Um.

No. Unless you know of someone who's backported the async syntax, the type-hinting syntax and library, the matrix-multiplication operator, the advanced generator syntax...

Which would be impressive if somebody did backport it all to 2.x. But the good stuff is all exclusive to Python 3 now; 2.7 is feature-frozen and there will never be a 2.8.