[wyldfire]

I don't know that I agree that it's a fiasco. I've been asked to work on a PDP11 in the last few years and while it was mind-boggling (the request -- I turned it down), it was understandable from a business perspective. So I can see how some businesses might want Just A Little While Longer on Python 2.x.

shrug, use python 3.x and don't sweat the fact that some folks are still stuck on 2.x. You certainly can't stop someone from offering support for 2.x -- the language is well defined and the reference implementation is open source. Anyone out there could put up a "Python 2.x Support: Cheap!" sign and be in business.

[nikolay]

It surely is. There's a reason behind why support for old versions ends at some point.