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What happens? You become the most-widely used language on the planet? The Python 2-3 wars are over. Python 3 won.

• tsimionescu 5y ago
  You get 10 years of headaches for everyone who gets close to the language. Even today, the python executable in Ubuntu is called `python3`, not `python`. To be fair though, it would be less of a problem for C++ than it was for Python, since you wouldn't have to depend on the compiler from the end-user system.
• pjmlp 5y ago
  I just installed Python 2.7 on my new project because some critical libraries used by the customer don't care Python 3 exists.
  • xxpor 5y ago
    Open source ones?
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      To some extent yes, and no I am not going to mention which ones.
      • xxpor 5y ago
        I just can't think of a major open source python lib that hasn't added support for 3 if the functionality wasn't replaced by a new feature in 3.
        • pjmlp 5y ago
          Github is a tiny drop on the universe from enteprise computing.