[Python-checkins] bpo-34203: FAQ: improve wording of paragraph about 2.x vs. 3.x (GH-9821)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5ac626350e2bfe5f283e7322bc31045062680d2b
commit: 5ac626350e2bfe5f283e7322bc31045062680d2b
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
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date: 2019-03-26T14:20:29-07:00
summary:

bpo-34203: FAQ: improve wording of paragraph about 2.x vs. 3.x (GH-9821)

(cherry picked from commit 6cd658b1a5cb2413230dbc2d9395d20498be8518)

Co-authored-by: Tal Einat <taleinat+github at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/faq/general.rst

diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst
index 7ee340d7957c..3ef553e8acb4 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/general.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst
@@ -306,14 +306,10 @@ guaranteed that interfaces will remain the same throughout a series of bugfix
 releases.
 
 The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page
-<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_.  There are two production-ready version
-of Python: 2.x and 3.x, but the recommended one at this times is Python 3.x.
-Although Python 2.x is still widely used, `it will not be
-maintained after January 1, 2020 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/>`_.
-Python 2.x was known for having more third-party libraries available, however,
-by the time of this writing, most of the widely used libraries support Python 3.x,
-and some are even dropping the Python 2.x support.
-
+<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_.  There are two production-ready versions
+of Python: 2.x and 3.x. The recommended version is 3.x, which is supported by
+most widely used libraries.  Although 2.x is still widely used, `it will not
+be maintained after January 1, 2020 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/>`_.
 
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