Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes:
> The Python core developers have recent committed to providing security 
> updates for 2.7 until 2020. And Redhat have paid support for 2.7 until 
> 2023. So there's no rush.

Perhaps Python 4 will be out by then and the Python 2 holdouts can skip
over Python 3.

> - over the next three or four years, there will be a steady trickle of 
> people complaining about Python 3, slowly fading as more people move to 
> Python 3;
> - when the main Linux distros start using Python 3 as their system 
> Python, there will be a sudden rush of people to Python 3;

This is more realistic--people don't explicitly switch but rather the
stuff that comes with the OS changes.
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