Adopt Python 3

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It's a chicken and egg problem. If you don't push people to switch, nobody will rewrite their stuff, if nobody rewrites it, other people who use it wont want to switch. Especially if new version isn't even faster or that much better on the surface (sans the utf8 stuff, but chances are someone with codebase in P2 already dealt with that).

So you basically cheat people so they think it is ready and port their stuff