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It is not though. Python 3 is wayyyy easier to teach. And i should know since it's my job.

Got a couple of quick examples where Python 3 is easier?

Is it that it is more consistent in places?

Unicode handling. Python2's implementation on that is broken.

String handling that makes sense

No more long type

Division that works as expected

Annotations

No more xrange, iteritems etc, instead you get iterators everywhere

f-strings

I think my personal favorite is exception chaining. Makes it so much easier to debug issues, especially for newbies.

I'm a Python 3 fan, but I didn't expect that. Could you explain why?

It's the aggregate of so many little things.

Less duplicates (xrange vs range, itemview/iteritems/items(), map/itertols.map,).

Entering french in comments will not crash the program even if you didn't give "the unicode talk". Clear type for raw bytes with a proper name.

Way less verbose (no __future__, no u, no object, no codecs import, f-strings, simple super(), etc)

Debugging is easier (debug messages are better, exception chaining, division makes sense, repr is clearer)

You can't shoot yourself in the foot as much (ordering "1" and 1, assigning to True ...)

Less stuff to learn (e.g: pathlib instead of os/shutils/glob/codecs)

And that's just out of my head.