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Almost all Autodesk products come bundled with 2.x version of python. Could it be that Python 2.x is the Windows 7 of the Python world :) - just good enough for everyone.

(I'm not a python user, had to write few items for Maya/MotionBuilder and few other scripts).

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2.6.4... sigh... I do use Python and Maya/Motionbuilder.

It would be great if Autodesk ever did upgrade python to 3.3, but I suppose A LOT of stuff would break in the process.

But since A LOT of stuff already breaks from each yearly version it wouldn't matter much... :P

I would bet they will only upgrade it when many new features in PySide supports only 3.x and up, or if they ever drop support for 2.6.x.

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