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by willvarfar 4088 days ago
The way to make Python 3 more attractive is to backport the best bits to Python 2.8...
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I want Python 2.8.

This is Python 2.7, but is based on PyPy (so it's waaay faster), and has requests + gevent + lxml built-in, and adds some small niceties from 3.x (yield from, a, b* = foo()).

Feel free to implement that in Pypy right now?
Haven't hacked on PyPy before. Would be interesting to do someday :)
Officially there are no plans for 2.8. Version 2.7 is the last one (but they'll keep supporting it with bug fixes AFAIK, hence why it's up to 2.7.9).
You can lead the python horse to water but you cannot make it drink... :(

My point is that there ought be a 2.8, and it ought to keep growing.

I sat through a similar talk about (lack of) 3.x adoption at PyConSwe last year.

Who did the people who invented 3.x think their customers were? What did they think people wanted and needed?