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by pdonis 960 days ago
I don't think "intransigent" is a fair description. At the end of the day, Python 3 was a different language from Python 2, and people weren't going to switch languages if there wasn't a benefit to them. That's a perfectly reasonable position. The Python dev team extended the end of life date for Python 2 from 2015 to 2020 because they realized that Python 3 simply hadn't advanced enough by 2015 to make it worth while for all the Python 2 users to switch.