When will Jython support Python 3? [closed]

Another update: an August 2020 commit clarified that the repository to look at is not the Jython3 one but the main Jython repo. Anyway “The latest version of Jython remains 2.7.x. A Jython 3.x should appear, but exploratory work towards it is not stable at the time of writing.
Please watch the jython-dev mailing list for developements.”


Update: 9 years after the question has been originally asked the answer now seems to be not in the near future. Most recent commit is now more than two years old (July 18, 2017), and developers say that the 3.x branch is “resting”.


My original answer:

5 years after the question has been asked, the answer is still “it will come, but the time frame for an initial release is not clear yet”.

What we can say is that now there is a jython3 repository targetting Python 3.5. README.md, dated 28 May 2015, says:

This repo is in the very early stages of development of a release of Jython 3.5. Planned goals are language and runtime compatibility with CPython 3.5, along with continued substantial support of the Python ecosystem.

Jython FAQ page states that:

Jython 3.x development is in progress.

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