[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.