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"Let it be known that Lambda only supports python 2.7, not python 3, and that really frickin sucks. Get your shit together, Amazon."

Node 4 support came, what, a month ago? It's pretty ridiculous.

I specifically don't understand the Python 3 situation. They support Python 2, it can't be that complicated to have a separate Python 3 runtime.

There is no significant benefit to python 3 over python 2.

Except that it is the way forward and many people choose to write python3 compatible code.

You're wrong, and it's irrelevant anyway. Our app is in Python 3. Having to support Python 2 just because lambda doesn't support 3.x is a pain.

Unicode....?

I mean, that's reason enough. Python 2's string processing suuuuuuucks.

Asyncio?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html

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