> For whatever reason (maybe post 2to3 PTSD), Python community seems not extremely eager to jump on latest versions of Python I don't think it's the 2 -> 3 thi

> For whatever reason (maybe post 2to3 PTSD), Python community seems not extremely eager to jump on latest versions of Python I don't think it's the 2 -> 3 thing any more, that was a while ago. Honestly there are just a lot of things that don't work well in 3.x.0 Python releases. For example, 3.12.0 had the per-interpreter GIL thing; I tried that in 3.12.0 and ran into a completely breaking issue almost immediately. They were responsive & helpful and did fix the first issue in 3.12.1, but we still had more issues with parts of the C API which seemed to work in 3.11 and better again in 3.13, but it really felt like that needed another release to solidify. (Also you can't import datetime in that setup in 3.12, which is also a pretty big deal-breaker). I can only imagine the free-threading thing will need at least the same kind of time to work the kinks out, although it is nice to see them moving in that direction.