[carapace]

Abandoned by whom? ;-) I don't plan to abandon it.

Elsewhere in the thread xrange has mentioned Tauthon. And there are more Python 2 interpreters than just the main C Python.

Pypy may stop supporting 2 syntax officially, but I doubt it. Since it never changes, there's next to no overhead to keeping it available.

And further, if your language isn't changing then maintenance and debugging become much easier. Conceivably the codebase(s) can asymptotically approach 100% correctness.

O_o