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Probably because Google still mostly uses Python 2.7 internally.


Yikes! Not being to run on Py3k is a deal breaker for me.


It's definitely an unfortunate situation. The community has been coalescing around Python 3 in the last couple years, but Google is obviously encumbered by all its legacy Python 2.7 code. Their SyntaxNet library still doesn't have Python 3 support a year after release. I'm wondering what their long-term plans are given 2.7 EOL in 2020.




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