Python3 ?

Am I the only one that is surprised that Indigo 7 uses Python 2.7 instead of 3.X? Why bring out a new product with a language that is deprecated and will not be enhanced after April 2020? While I can use 2.7, I find myself avoiding it these days due to the capabilities of ver 3.5+.

<Shrug> No, I guess I'm not surprised. 2.7 comes with current versions of macOS...

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Ricks-MacBook-Air-2:~ rick$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 19:40:32)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

[matt (support)]

Indigo uses the Python framework installed by Mac OS. macOS 10.7 (our min OS requirement) includes Python 2.7, so that is the version we target. We could of course embed our own version of Python (we might some day), but there are some advantages to using the macOS version as it includes some macOS specific services. A lot of them have been deprecated at this point, but some of them are still useful.

[jay (support)]

And Indigo isn't a new product. We started using Python in 2008, before Python 3 shipped, and certainly well before it was ready for primetime (though there are a LOT of people who might disagree that it's ready for primetime LOL). We'll make the move to Python 3 in due course, but there is very little reason to spend the energy to do it now.