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by eliben 4446 days ago
I think many folks are reading too much into this. "Extended lifetime" is bug-fixes. The final planned release is 2.7.9 in 2015 - beyond that there will be source-only releases for major security problems. No new features, no non-critical bug fixes.

So this isn't really making Python 3 any less appealing. But the Python core developers cannot with a calm heart abandon all the users of 2.x, given the state of adoption today.
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Goopplesoft 4446 days ago
Finally, sensible reasoning. The comments in this thread and the unnecessary publicity this is getting is probably the only thing about this that would lead to the conclusion that this is a push back towards 2.7
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Rubikan 4446 days ago
But if they still get bugfixes there will be even less incentive to switch for them.

And if I look at the whole thing now, "no new features" is not certain. If people are still unwilling to switch he may consider backpedaling and backport some other features to 2.X.

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