[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Oct 28 18:42:49 CEST 2010

On Oct 28, 2010, at 04:07 PM, lutz at rmi.net wrote:

I hope 3.X use expands; in fact, I've bet the future of at least one book on it. And even 1/4 of new users seems a large enough subset to care about too. But one can't help but wonder if most of the development community is focused on some imaginary future user base, at the expense of the much larger current user base. Then again, there's still plenty of Fortran77 code out there, so...

Python 2 will live on for a long time. Other than promising to bug-fix maintain Python 2.7 for much longer than usual, which we've already done, what specifically should we do? A no-new-feature Python 2.8 doesn't make sense, and I'm not convinced that a new-feature Python 2.8 really helps folks who are stuck on Python 2 for whatever reason.

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