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Re:Google's Python Class by coldtea on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:12PM (#16532947)
>Unless you discover an internal bug in Python 2 in which case it will never be fixed.

Or the community -- including companies with huge resources and lots of Python 2 code -- will just fork 2.7 and fix it.

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Re:Google's Python Class by jamiesonbecker on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:58PM (#16533251)
Except the community really can't and live to tell anyone about it (aside from a fringe fork), because the Python Foundation won't let them use the Python name for the fork, even though a fork is in every other way open source and labeled for maintenance purposes only.

Anyone who's every ported a very large project from 2 to 3 might end up despising the PSF for this purpose and might tend to search for a new language (Nim? Go? JS? Scala? Ruby?!). So much for the B in BDFL..

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Re:Google's Python Class by coldtea on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:42AM (#16535544)
>Except the community really can't and live to tell anyone about it (aside from a fringe fork), because the Python Foundation won't let them use the Python name for the fork

Yeah, but a name like "Cobra, a fork of Python 2.7" will do just as well, and everyone that cares enough will know what it is and where to find it.

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