[a_nop]

They kind of burned a breaking major version transition for no good reason with 2-to-3, now they are prefacing a major change with "it won't be like 2-to-3". It sounds like they may be maintaining two operating modes in CPython 3 instead of going forward with another major transition, just because of that history.

[jborean93]

> They kind of burned a breaking major version transition for no good reason with 2-to-3

The unicode/text changes alone were a pretty good reason. Division producing floats are also a nice change IMO. I don’t want to discount the challenges with the transition but saying there was no good reason isn’t right to me.

[lozenge]

There were a lot of bad reasons as well. The removal of the u string prefix in versions 3.0-3.2 was unnecessary and made the transition much more difficult. It kind of gave Python 3 a bad reputation.

[rightbyte]

Not good enough reason then?

[a_nop]

Unicode was absolutely a good change, the burn was the execution