[pitiburi]

Are you upvoting it because you agree with the rant, because you think it's time for a new debate over Python 2.8, because you think Python is losing space and turning into the future Pascal, because you hate 2to3, just because you think is nice to have some news about Python... It would be very interesting if some of you elaborate a little bit on what parts of this article you agree with.

[pyre]

Not everyone up-votes because they agree with something. It's perfectly reasonable to up-vote something with the hopes that it hits the front page because you feel it will spawn an interesting discussion that you want to read and/or participate in.

[pitiburi]

Exactly, that is why, when i saw it with more than 20 votes but not a single comment that i dared to ask, honestly, why were they upvoting; I wanted to know the reasons. As you say, it can be for many different reasons, and I was interested in what the community thought about this. Sadly, that meant I could be misunderstood, and in fact I was downvoted for just asking, in the first comment on the new, to please know the REASONS the others were upvoting.

[swdunlop]

I upvoted, because I thought about this very issue yesterday -- my primary project is a very large Python2 project that started after the declaration of 2.7.x as the end of the line. All of our dependencies were Python2, and many of them were too exotic or niche to have Python3 competitors.

I feel that my position is actually a majority in the Python community -- language users who are stuck with the branch that is considered unfashionable by the core developers and adding more resistance against migration to Python3.

[eliben]

The Python core developers are not against you. Your case is perfectly valid and understood. The core developers do, however, try to prepare the ground that will make it possible even for projects like yours to eventually make the move. It is hoped that in some time most popular libraries will have Python 3 versions, and many Linux distributions will come with Python 3 pre-installed (Ubuntu is making good steps in this direction). Eventually, a time will come when it will make sense for you to make the switch. We just hope it won't be too long.

All along, Python 2.7 is going to be maintained and bugs are going to be fixed. It is perfectly understood that the 2.x branch is currently by far the more used and deployed, and there's no plans to abandon it in terms of support. It just won't get new features.