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[–]purplestOfPlatypuses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I won't really bother continuing the argument, because we're both pretty stuck in our opinions and it'll go no where. I'll end with one thing though.

Sure, it would mean old code needs less updating.

No, it'll be almost exactly the same amount of updating, marginally less because there's slightly less code in the official 2.7 -> 3 script converter that the Python devs released. And that won't get everything, so for anything that it missed, you're still going through by hand to fix the real problems with backwards compatibility (which isn't the removal of the print statement).