If you were starting a project now, you wouldn't choose this. It was done to prove a point that Python 2 could have gotten (nearly) all the Python 3 features w

If you were starting a project now, you wouldn't choose this. It was done to prove a point that Python 2 could have gotten (nearly) all the Python 3 features without a hard/breaking change. Their point has been made, but it's not like the Python community is going to unmake those changes. If you're starting a project, you should definitely use the current version of a language that is supported by a zillion developers, rather than picking a (practically experimental) fork of the old version.