&gt;i keep looking for a reason to switch to python 3 and cant find one.<p>Unicode? Not having to deal with encoding all over the place has been well worth switch to Python 3. If performance is a a huge issue, I honestly don&#x27;t know why you would stay on Python (regardless of version)<p>I wouldn&#x27;t want to switch back to Python 2.7 is I can avoid it. There&#x27;s honestly no reason not to go with 3.4 or 3.5 at this point, unless you happen to have a large Python 2 code base.