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> But the core devs got bored and decided to either break most things for very minor improvements

I think asyncio in python3.4 and async/await keywords in python3.5 is a gamechanger. It's hardly a minor improvement




Well 1) it took us 5 years to get those features, 3.0 just broke shit and ran slowly for no discernible benefit to the end user.

And 2) I know of no reason those features couldn't be implemented in Python2 other than "we don't want to, because otherwise few people will ever upgrade to 3"


Was upgrading even recommended before 3.3?


That doesn't actually help the "py3k was a good idea" argument. 3.3 came out 4 years after 3.0. 4 years to become a reasonable choice is kind of pathetic, especially given the fact that python2 was put into bugfix-only mode 2 years after the 3.0 release


And sane unicode handling.


plus static type checking




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