[saurik]

It certainly didn't help that they were annoying about it; like, they actively dropped some of the forward compatibility they had added (a key one being if you had already carefully used u and b prefixes on strings) in Python 3.0, and only added it back years later after they struggled to get adoption. If they had started their war with Python 3.5 instead of 3.0 it would be a lot less infuriating.

[flomo]

Not being a python dev, there must have been some huge superficial 'ick'. Back when, I was talking to a python guy and mentioned that Python 3 was coming out. He said something like "we're just going to ignore that until they sober-up and fix it." Which it seems like a lot of people actually did. (or they really sobered-up and rewrote in Go or something.)

[zahlman]

> He said something like "we're just going to ignore that until they sober-up and fix it." Which it seems like a lot of people actually did.

"It" was fixed long before the 2.7 official sunset date. Even before the original planned date before it got extended, frankly.