[deckiedan]

Python 2.7 hasn't has any improvements since python 3 began, and it won't. All this announcment means is that Python 2.7 will continue to get security/support for another 5 years.

[jmoiron]

Python 2.7 was released after 3.1 and contains many features backported from the 3.x series in order to ease migration.

[deckiedan]

Ah, yeah. Sorry, my history is a little hazy. I claim I was going for the spirit of the situation, rather than the details... ;-)