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The thing here is you cannot use the name Python with the fork. Think about Iceweasel but without Debian's community.

The new Python fork would have none of Python's fame and it would need some push to solve the chicken-egg problem. Why fork and maintain a huge code base when nobody will use it?

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Didn't stop MariaDB did it?

The cases are different.

It was the original maintainers who forked MariaDB off MySQL over a concern for software openness, which sounds like a good reason to fork.

A python2.7 fork will have no reason other than "We don't want to use the new version of the language". I doubt if any Linux distros would replace their python2.7 package with the fork, even after the EOL of 2.7.

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