> The notion that the Python core devs get to decide when Python 2 should stop being used is not cool. This is incorrect. They get to decide when they stop sup

> The notion that the Python core devs get to decide when Python 2 should stop being used is not cool. This is incorrect. They get to decide when they stop supporting it. Of course that's within their rights, and a 2020 sunset date on a version released in 2010 is a very long LTS window. > It's not particularly nice that the thing that's compatible with what was called Python to begin with is the one that got renamed. This is how copyright works. Someone else is free to release a MyPython 2.8 if they'd like, but they're not free to call it Python.