@@ -13,13 +13,7 @@ the past using some other language you may want to read [the official
 tutorial](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/) instead.
 
 You can use Python 3.3 or any newer Python with this tutorial. **Don't
-use Python 2.** If you write a Python 2 program now someone will need to
-convert it to Python 3 later, so it's best to just write Python 3 to
-begin with. Python 3 code will work just fine in Python 4, so you don't
-need to worry about that. Python 2 also has horrible
-[Unicode](http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html) problems,
-so it's difficult to write Python 2 code that works correctly with
-non-English characters (like π and ♫).
+use Python 2 because it's no longer supported.**
 
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