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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
That said, wasn't Kovid at one point planning to single-handedly maintain Python2 himself rather than port to Python3?
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Yup, porting half a million lines of python 2 to python 3 is too much work. Far more effort than maintaining an existing codebase like python 2. I was actually maintaining a python 2 fork built with Visual Studio 2017 on windows for several years already.
Fortunately, other people showed up to help with the porting to python 3, so it became feasible. See the
https://calibre-ebook.com/about#contributors for details.