Python 3 has been around for five years now, but adoption of the language still languishes—at least according to some. It is a common problem for projects that make non-backward-compatible changes, ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was “almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense” following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Python Software Foundation survey finds that a significant number of Python developers are still using Python 2 for data analysis, computer graphics, and devops. Python 3 was by far the choice over ...