Mostly just because of all the oxygen this debate seems to suck up, and the lack of reasonableness around it. It also bothers me because some of this nonsense seemed to contribute to Guido stepping down as BDFL, which I think was a Bad Thing.
Let me be clear: If people want to use Python 2 they can go nuts. They can even pretend it's a completely new language if they want to. If there's enough of them I'm sure it can be done. Just stop asking the community to support it, or the rest of us to care.
Let me be clear: If people want to use Python 2 they can go nuts. They can even pretend it's a completely new language if they want to. If there's enough of them I'm sure it can be done. Just stop asking the community to support it, or the rest of us to care.