python 2 has a lot more implicitness when it comes to types (everything is comparable with everything else, unicodestrings/bytestrings autoconvert, etc. > Peop

python 2 has a lot more implicitness when it comes to types (everything is comparable with everything else, unicodestrings/bytestrings autoconvert, etc. > People that use python 2 generally maintain existing code base. maintain being a key word there, finding bugs before they become a problem is always a good thing. - - - Also python 2 is maintained beyond security patches, but only by third parties: the core developers won't be adding new features, but third parties are welcome to spend time and effort to backport python 3 features to python 2 (as long as it isn't an incompatible change for py2) At least that is what my understanding of the situation is