My guess here is that still being in Python 2 makes this more difficult. If you're in Python 2 the bytes/str story is still mixed up, so API solidification hap

My guess here is that still being in Python 2 makes this more difficult. If you're in Python 2 the bytes/str story is still mixed up, so API solidification happening in Django iteratively (in preparation for Django 2.0) will likely break a good amount of your code. Inversely, we moved over to Py3 in the 1.7 days so we were spared some pain on that end.