I strongly dislike Python 3

[Nobody]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:08:48 +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

>> I think that's not true. If enough people want to support Python 2 it
>> might be possible to advance Python 2.
> 
> That won't be sufficient: enough people wanting support won't have any
> effect. People also need to want it enough to actually fork from
> python.org.

This will happen.

> They would then have to convince Linux packagers to include
> it in the distribution even though it's not available from python.org,

So will this.

> and convince Windows users to download it from some other place than
> python.org.

I don't know about this one. Windows uses Unicode natively, so Python3
isn't so problematic there.

> I think people will find that this isn't really worth the
> trouble.

I disagree.

The Unix API uses byte strings, with no associated encoding; always has,
always will. For people who use Python as an alternative to bash or Perl,
maintaining a fork of Python 2 is going to be less trouble than using
Python 3.