Seems to me that Python 2 inertia comes from old libraries and badly written code is holding many folks back.
I switched to Python 3.1 when it was released and have never had to look back. My code took very little time to convert and as for libraries, I always seem to be able to find ones that are compatible with Python 3.x
Seems to me that much of the hand-wringing that is going on, is because some people don't want to change / upgrade. Well that is their choice. If your favourite library is not Python 3 compatible - then fork it and upgrade it ! If that's too much work, then use a library that is.
Making Python 2.8 just seems like a bad idea. It will fracture the userbase even more than it already is, diluting everyone's development efforts. This kind of reminds me of what happened with Unity and Gnome 2. I think making a fork will leave the language in a more confused and messy position; which could kill off the language. This would be terribly unfortunate, considering Python is my favorite language.
Yeah, because THAT is clearly what's blocking Python 3 adoption, with "from __future__ import print_function" being there since 2.6.
It seems almost insulting that after years of relative stalling, now that Python 3 is really taking off (Django, Numpy ...) some people feel suddenly lazy about it.
Most languages get overwhelmed by cruft as they evolve. It is almost revolutionary that Python3 is missing some of the warts of Python2. Right now I use a mix of Python2 and Python3--but new projects which have a long-term horizon are in Python3.
I switched to Python 3.1 when it was released and have never had to look back. My code took very little time to convert and as for libraries, I always seem to be able to find ones that are compatible with Python 3.x
Seems to me that much of the hand-wringing that is going on, is because some people don't want to change / upgrade. Well that is their choice. If your favourite library is not Python 3 compatible - then fork it and upgrade it ! If that's too much work, then use a library that is.