> It does not help that useful stuff from 3.x get backported to 2.x or available via __future__, and that IMHO Python 2.7 is awesome so the urge is not quite th

> It does not help that useful stuff from 3.x get backported to 2.x or available via __future__, and that IMHO Python 2.7 is awesome so the urge is not quite there Part of the reason that the urge isn't quite there is because there hasn't been enough time for 3.x to diverge from 2.7, the end of the 2 line. 3.2 came out eight months after 2.7 and the feature differences aren't large, especially considering that 3.2 was developed at the same time as 2.7 so many of the newly added features are the same. As 3.x continues on with the 3.3 release next fall, the differences will become greater, the feature sets will become different, and the urge may start rising. As was said before, this is all measured in years - we can't expect that 3.x (the interpreter and standard library, on its own merits) just suddenly jumps ahead.