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So better is to use community fork of Python 2 with new features which are not compatible with Python 2 nor Python 3. Additionally most of public libraries switched to Python 3 and Python 2 will be not supported (and probably will not be compatible with this fork). What are guarantee that this run time will fix issues, security bugs or it will not lose support after a day?

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Whether or not it is better in a situation depends on actual circumstances and the specific context. Better and worse alternatives are matters of engineering analysis not theory or ideology or morals.

At best, people running Python 2 do not have any good choices. Python 3 may or may not be the best among bad options. But it may not even be an option at all if the code is in production and there's not a good business case for migration.

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