Is it really that confusing? I have never heard of anyone asking "what is py3k?"
Do you read python-list? It has been asked. Also, some people seem to think that py3k is different from python 3.
Personally, I vote for keeping the "3k" for 3000 (or is it 3072?). I believe that py3k represents a ideal that hasn't been reached, despite being hoped for in python3. By keeping it, it confers the idea continual evolution *within* the language until that hypothetical ideal is reached. Clearly, there are times when a language reaches only a local maximum, and must depart from itself to arrive at a more global optimum (an annealing problem in the minimization of frustration energy). If py3k wasn't kept, another term would eventually need to be invented. marcos