[symbiotic]

Here is my thought process...

Regardless of how you feel about PHP, I've spent enough time with it that I can make it work and write good code, quickly.

I do want to switch to another language at some point (I'll leave the reasoning for that out of this discussion).

Why switch to Python 2.7 if it's going to be old in a year or two? Even if there isn't a huge difference between 2.7 and 3.x it sounds like it would be a nightmare trying to upgrade any of the old work that I would have done in 2.7. So either I've got some projects that will be on 2.7 forever, or I go through the hassle of trying to upgrade. I'd rather just wait and avoid the whole debacle.

[fayden]

There are ways to write Python2 code that will work when you make the switch to Python3. It _is_ a hassle, but it's quite doable.

This may not convince you (and I perfectly understand why), but I think it's worth giving Python a shot even if you're fluent in another language.

[symbiotic]

Interesting, I'll look into it!