Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
Good. The glacial migration from Python 2 to 3 is one of the worst things about an otherwise fantastic ecosystem. The tide is turning though, with Django having already dropped support for 2, and now with Numpy too hopefully Python 2 can be properly consigned to the history books.For people wondering why it's been like this for almost a decade(!) since Python 3.0 was released: Python 3.0 was actually terrible. It lacked many critical things, and was riddled with bugs and security flaws until 3.3, which was released 4 years after 3.0. This cemented in many people's minds the idea that Python 3 was a bad thing. Python 2 was and is a fantastic programming language, so it was a very high bar to move up from. Python 3 has come a long way since then, Python 3.6 is now a decent step up from 2.7.