[KaiserPro]

Yes but PHP5 had compelling reasons for upgrading. py3 has a few tweaks and some annoying syntax changes to make things more "pure"

[TazeTSchnitzel]

So, counter-intuitively, the bigger leaps are easier to make than the small ones!

[mimighost]

Small ones as Py3, doesn't deserve a major version boost. It simply doesn't have that much to offer.

[dragonwriter]

> py3 has a few tweaks and some annoying syntax changes to make things more "pure"

That may have been true of Python 3.0 vs. 2.x, but Python 3 has moved forward quite a bit since 3.0.

[berkut]

I think the point was there was no "OMG we need that, let's upgrade" feature for most people (unicode maybe).

e.g.:

  * Performance
  * Getting rid of the GIL
  * Improve multithreading (somewhat related to above) - multiprocess is still very bad performance-wise

A fair number of the things in 3.x could have been added to the 2.x series...