The transition to Python 3 is happening but there is still a massive
amount of code that needs to be ported.  One of the most disruptive
changes in Python 3 is the strict separation of bytes from unicode
strings.  Most of the other incompatible changes can be handled by
2to3.

Here is a far out idea to make transition smoother.  Release version
2.8 of Python with nearly all Python 3.x incompatible changes except
for the bytes/unicode changes.  .....