Why create a different python?

[andresriancho]

Why create a different python? Why not submit the fixes to the main cpython repo?

[twirrim]

Python 2 is not dead. They keep releasing bugfixes and security patches for it. The latest release is Python 2.7.11 released on 2015-12-05 (release notes: https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/53d30ab403f1/Misc/NEWS)