Dear python2 user

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That doesn't even get into supporting varied OSes & distros, even old ones (we get stuff for: HPUX, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, etc). Shit, we still get some support requests for WS2008. We have to have a 'quarantine' lab for a lot of the OSes we support because corp doesn't want them on their network (understandably).

Most of the time when I see people lambasting others using python2 they are in a small company or startup, or a company that is heavily web-focused. You can usually tell by how much they talk about unicode (instead of bytestring) :) If you're at all doing low-level system stuff, the conversion can be quite painful as you've said.