> Since there still won't be a Python 2.8, I read this as the mainstream Python not evolving one bit for the next 6 years.
No, what it is is "legacy Python 2.7 gets 5 more years where bugfixes that we expect certain major users of Python -- notably RedHat, which has 2.x bundled into releases that have long support terms -- to submit may be published to the world as bugfix (2.7.x) releases".
The mainstream of Python development has been 3.x for years, and that line will continue to keep evolving.
No, what it is is "legacy Python 2.7 gets 5 more years where bugfixes that we expect certain major users of Python -- notably RedHat, which has 2.x bundled into releases that have long support terms -- to submit may be published to the world as bugfix (2.7.x) releases".
The mainstream of Python development has been 3.x for years, and that line will continue to keep evolving.