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Yeah, I think the "no new features in 2.7.1+" has been making Python less exciting to use for the past few years, as libraries have slowly started to support Python 3. I think the future might feel less bleak once Python 3 becomes a better option in deployment.

As for the original article, I don't mind if Python's future isn't everywhere, but I find it sad that modern languages like Go and Rust don't copy more of Python's features (and my top contender for this is actually significant whitespace, because I find it greatly helps readability).

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> "no new features in 2.7" has been making Python less exciting

Erm... Not exactly. http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html

"To help with porting to Python 3, several new features from the Python 3.x series have been included in 2.7"

Err, yeah. I mean in 2.7, as in, 2.7.1+. I've updated my post to make that more clear.

Hasn't that generally been the case? That is, Python 2.6.1 "is the first bugfix release of Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added." So there's nothing new about 2.7.1 being only a bugfix release.

There will be no python 2.8. Ref: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/

Hmm. I think I misread things. I thought the author was saying that 2.7.x is a problem because 2.7.x are bug fixes-only. I now see I could have read that as there will be no features added, starting with 2.7.