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by ttwwmm 2289 days ago
> I disagree... you could always leverage six and/or do conditional imports based on sys.version

Sure it was possible, but what benefit would doing all that work get you? More memory use! It wasn't until Python 3.5 that Python 3 was clearly better for most use cases. Even today the regression import performance is problematic for CLI tools.