[adastra22]

What would be the confusion? It’s a continuation of a language interpreter compatible with the dialect known as Python2.

Renaming it is more confusing!

[JoshTriplett]

"Python 2.8" implies it's the One True Continuation of Python 2.7, as opposed to someone's random fork.

[bandrami]

Is there another continuation of Python 2.7 you know of?

He literally took over an abandoned codebase, and got sued for calling it the codebase's name.

[abenga]

You can't release new code that is incompatible with Python and call it Python if you have not been allowed to do so by the Python Software Foundation. It's like, basic trademark law.