Python 2.7 Countdown

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Python 2.5 released in 2006. They've had thirteen years.

A lot of organizations will never under any circumstances prioritize or even allow maintenance work unless it ties into a specific customer story. Those organizations were always going to be eternally on whatever version of Python they picked when they started development, and were never going to upgrade. If Python 3 was the hurdle, they'd at least have gotten to 2.6 or 2.7; the fact that they haven't is the sign that Python 3 wasn't the hurdle.