well i'm glad i woke up to half a dozen people explicitly @'ing zed shaw into this thread, i can't wait to see what of mine he redlines next
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the first few years were spent ironing out kinks, and the next few on porting most of pypi
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admitting that Python made fatal compat mistakes and committing to fixing them (loudly and clearly) is important.
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i think it's pretty obvious that the transition did not go as smoothly as was intended
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but every release of py3 has done something to try to improve that, and there's not that much left
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py3 is finally in a pretty decent place these last few years, and it took a lot of work to get us here
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what would you have them do, re-break compatibility with python 3 to be more compatible with python 2?
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no, backport more to 2.7, and reverse some of the breaking changes based on the biggest adoption blockers.
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simple example: restore support for the old-style print statement.
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