> maintainers are bringing out sticks Library maintainers? Why do they care what Python you use? They're dropping 2.x support because it's a burden to them.

> maintainers are bringing out sticks Library maintainers? Why do they care what Python you use? They're dropping 2.x support because it's a burden to them. I'm still using Python2, but the things I know I'd use that aren't back ported are; well, having to download something to backport functionality (batteries included is a selling point for Python), native namespace packages, nested exceptions, function annotation, and not having to treat unicode differently when dealing with external libraries like Qt or databases. I often backport lru cache, pathlib, and terminal size came up for me last week. The other new things look interesting, but since I'm not using Python3 I can't really evaluate them.