Seeing that Python 3 was released four years ago, and 2.7 will only be supported for ~2 more years, I'm curious which type-centric python libraries need to be ported over. I assume at this point that none of them have, but I could be wrong. The biggest hurdles that I can see are Robofab and Vanilla. PyObjC, which Robofont and parts of Glyphs depends on, would also be a huge component of Python 3 compliance, but it seems to be making the jump (can anyone verify this?). Are there other big python libraries that would need attention to move your scripts from 2.x to 3?
The other question I have is: how concerned are type designers with using an unsupported and/or outdated scripting language? My hunch is that there's not a lot of excitement about updating old scripts that are working fine, but I can see the day when Python 2.x might no longer be the default install on new hardware. If that's the case, it's going to start to feel funny installing an old version of Python to handle modern type design workflows…
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