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On 5/24/2014 3:49 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Few people have Python 3 as an objective. What I'm saying is that if
> Python 3 had something everybody wants and nothing else provides, the
> people will come, even the legacy libraries will be ported then.

I cannot think of anything beyond the core that 'everybody' wants. 
However, Python 3.3 has unicode that works for all characters on all 
platforms, and some people want that.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy