[shadowmint]

A lot of people really dont care about the future of python, they just want to write code.

...and honestly, whats wrong with that?

really, what difference does it make if people use old python versions?

Other than the core python team, which get to be embarrased that many people have zero interest in the work theyre doing?

Does it affect you? nope. Does it break the ecosystem? nope. Does it make library authors suffer? nope (dont support it if you dont want to).

Come on. Live and let be.

If you love python3, use it. Dont winge pointlessly (not you personally; all the hostile frothing at the mouth python3 advocates, especially on reddit)

[asdfologist]

I think you missed the whole point of this thread. People want ongoing official support of Python 2.7, which involves resources that could be used elsewhere. Supporting stuff is not free, you know?

[Retra]

The "ongoing official support of Python 2.7" is what resulted in the creation of Python 3. Python 3 contains the enhancements that are meant to fix the (very real) problems that exist in Python 2.

I really don't know where else you think those resources could have been used that wouldn't have resulted in Python 3. Unless you consider "doing nothing meaningful" to be a form of support.

[shadowmint]

https://hg.python.org/cpython/graph

I guess you can decide for yourself if the 'official support' of python is a massive drain on resources that could be used else where.

(The red line with a few commits now and then is the 2.7 branch)

[asdfologist]

That's a lot of commits. You just disproved your own argument.

[shadowmint]

Oh please. It's a handful of backports and bugfixes. Actually read the commits.