"simple solution" - simple to propose, certainly. Many have conjectured about a third-party (non-core developers) who might take on a 2.8. Any takers? No. "sel

"simple solution" - simple to propose, certainly. Many have conjectured about a third-party (non-core developers) who might take on a 2.8. Any takers? No. "self proclaimed benevolent dictator for life" - As a bit of minutia, it was Ken Manheimer who proclaimed him thus. This is a minor point, of course. "a 4.0 which works with 2.7 or a 2.8 that works with 3.x. If not, a fork will happen." - I look forward to a solution to enable chained exceptions and asyncio to work under a 2.x environment with a __future__ flag. I wonder who will pay for the hard work.