Perl 6 is a different language from Perl 5, and both are being developed actively. Perl 5 was at version 15, last I checked.
Python 2 is not being developed actively, aside from security updates, so it is permanently frozen at 2.7, with the intent of removing support entirely eventually (though not for a while).
It's not really a like comparison to compare the two.
>Perl 6 is a different language from Perl 5, and both are being developed actively. Perl 5 was at version 15, last I checked.
It wasn't always that way, however much certain luminaries try to retcon. Perl6 was originally intended to be, well, the next version of perl; it was only after the community's rejection that the decision to continue perl5 happened. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the same thing could happen to python (though I certainly hope not, and stories like this suggest we're reaching the tipping point).
it was only after the community's rejection that the decision to continue perl5 happened.
The lack of any usable Perl 6 implementation by the time of Perl 5.12 did more to promote the continuation of Perl 5 as its own project than any specific rejection of Perl 6. When the plan was for Perl 6 to replace Perl 5, the idea that Perl 5.12 would migrate to Parrot as a VM so that Perl 5 and Perl 6 code could run in the same process.
Python 2 is not being developed actively, aside from security updates, so it is permanently frozen at 2.7, with the intent of removing support entirely eventually (though not for a while).
It's not really a like comparison to compare the two.