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by DasIch 3676 days ago
There are enough large organizations using Python that no doubt at least one will find it to be cheaper and more convenient to continue maintaining a 2.7 interpreter. Dropbox is working on one just to increase performance. PyPy also has due to how it works fundamentally a huge interest in maintaining Python 2.7 support for the forseeable future.

You've to be quite naive to believe that Python 2.7 will retire in 2020. It will only fade from popularity slightly faster.
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sandipc 3676 days ago
Guido van Rossum (Python BDFL) himself works for Dropbox, so I'm not sure I believe that...

See also: https://www.dropbox.com/s/83ppa5iykqmr14z/Py2v3Hackers2013.p...

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DasIch 3675 days ago
He does but how much influence does he really have there? I doubt it's enough to push them to 3.x just because. Pyston 0.5, the interpreter developed at Dropbox, was also just released a few days ago.

They're going to do what's pragmatic and cost efficient. Making everyone stop improving the product and porting the code base, is probably more expensive than just having one team maintaining and improving the interpreter.

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