This has been in testing for some time in Arch. The Python maintainers decided to hold off on releasing 2.7 until all packages depending on Python could be rebu

This has been in testing for some time in Arch. The Python maintainers decided to hold off on releasing 2.7 until all packages depending on Python could be rebuilt to make the switch from UCS-2 to UCS-4. Now Python 3 and Python 2 are both UCS-4, and the 'python2' package is 2.7. I updated Arch on my workstation and server today and can confirm that everything "works for me" except for some python packages installed manually from AUR (e.g. offlineimap). Make sure to check your AUR packages.