[cookiecaper]

Someone has to take the first step and break the cycle to get the chicken-egg problem undone. Arch has had Python 3 as the default Python interpreter for a couple of years now and it's been working pretty much fine. Many libraries now support Python 3, and I've done full sites in Py 3. Almost all Python scripts I write these days are Python 3. I don't think I've had to downgrade a script that started in 3 down to 2 for a couple of years now. It's as ready as it's going to get.

The groundwork is done, and I think everyone who is going to support Py 3 without any extra prodding has already done so. Now we need the distros to come through and give that extra nudge to the maintainers that are still slacking, or encourage people to replace those libraries that refuse to update.