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I would love it if you would maintain a fork of 2.7. I'll look forward to the release!

The core team are already planning how to interact with the eventual community maintained fork. It's not a question of if but when.

The only concrete attraction of 3 for me is the Unicode improvement, and even that isn't exactly compelling. 3 is practically a new language designed to solve problems I've almost never encountered. Perhaps when someone comes up with a meaningful use of annotations or a workaround for e.g. the functionality lost by the cmp removal, I might change my mind

Why would you use/support the fork? Why not just upgrade?

It is pretty clear that the current users of Python 2.x have voted that they don't want to move to Python 3. Some language changes and lots of library changes. Everything has to be ported to upgrade.

As a current user of Python 2.x, I can't wait to make the jump to 3, and have already done so for a few of my personal projects. It's probably best not to generalize too much.

"current users of Python 2.x" is too broad to be accurate; anyways, it will be interesting to watch how motivated the holdouts will be when the 2015 deadline[1] approaches.

[1]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/12516...

I wouldn't say that at all. My company had voted that we weren't ready to move to Python 3 yet. It's looking very likely that we'll be making the leap for new development starting in the next week or so.

Python 2 is a beautiful, wonderful language. Python 3 is even better and there are very few reasons not to adopt it now.

I've been waiting for Django and PyPy, personally, and they're both comming along at a satisfactory pace, in my opinion.

I started a new Django project at work using Python 3. Fun part is it gives me an excuse to help some of the various Django libs to move to 3 (if the authors are still around to take pull requests :/).

I love Python 2.x, but I'll be ready to convert to 3 just as soon as the library support comes through. We're getting pretty close, I feel.

Ok, I can see that people disagree, however, I point to:

"Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008"

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