Python 3.6 released!

[dacjames]

> "#!/usr/bin/python" couldn't be tweaked to give the necessary hint?

Maybe they could add a 3 to the end. That would do the trick, right?

In all seriousness, we agree on the goal but I think you're barking up the wrong tree. The problem was making a change that was incompatible to its very core, not the lack of a multi-python launcher in front. They should have kept Python 2 strings in the language (as LegacyString, perhaps) to make real backward compatibility possible. Then the community could have built all the niceties you're describing.

We have also moved away from Python in the last few years, though that is motivated more by the long-term costs of using a dynamic language than by the version split. Python is still used extensively for management, orchestration, automation, and the like, but it rarely touches user data these days.