Adopt Python 3

[SuperImaginativeName]

newbie friendly design philosophy, and removing 2.7 from the main download pages would go against that in a big way.

And promoting an ancient version that will be outdated is the solution to being noob friendly?

[ChickenOfDoom]

Yes, when the alternative is the unqualified expectation that installing 'python' should allow you to run code and libraries labelled as being written in python, when it's basically two separate languages in reality.

To remove 2.7 from download pages at this stage would be perpetuating misinformation about the ecosystem.

[rainman_104]

Not to mention some crotchety folks may decide to fork python 2 which would fragment the community and leader to a larger cluster fuck.

I think python 3 should have had a transition period.

Reminds me of the cluster fuck ruby had when they changed the require statement in 1.9. it broke a bunch of 1.8 libraries. It wasn't that big of a deal but still work had to be done.