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By definition, advocating to not add cruft to an API is going to be in
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Rather, the claim is that *if* one's code base doesn't migrate to
Python 3, it will be decreasingly supported by the PSF and the
Python community at large.
The PSF doesn't support any versions
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For draft PEP, the identifier may change.
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list of possible features for 3.3 as specified by PEP 398:
Candidate PEPs:
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* PEP 3143: Standard daemon process library
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