For those people genuinely "stuck" I can certainly understand wanting to prolong the life of 2.7 past 2020. It keeps legacy products secure and working without

For those people genuinely "stuck" I can certainly understand wanting to prolong the life of 2.7 past 2020. It keeps legacy products secure and working without having to retool them onto 3.x, which really is a big job. Why not. The core python team is unhappy keeping it on life support but why couldn't somebody else? But this "2.8" is about adding 3.x language features onto 2.7, essentially declaring a brand new language standard for new development. People who want this aren't saying they don't want to upgrade, they're saying they want to stay on 2.x forever. That seems perversely stubborn to me.