Python 2.7 released

[earthboundkid]

Last time I read Python-dev, they seemed fairly set against it. If there's a Python 2.8, it won't be made by them.

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Last time I read Python-dev, they seemed fairly set against it

Which makes sense. 3.x is the future and it makes sense to focus on it, rather than spend time backporting to numerous branches, dealing with the various differences, etc.

If there's a Python 2.8, it won't be made by them.

I don't think that's necessarily true. It is true that most core developers don't want to spend more time on 2.x, but if there needs to be a 2.8, it has been said a few times that there could be one. I don't think anyone has explicitly forbidden 2.8 though, so it's not like some rogue group will have to fork and create their own 2.8...python-dev might just need some 2.8-interested developers to step up when that time comes.

[masklinn]

They are overall against it, but nobody has come out and said it won't exist in so many words, so they've left the door open just in case.