On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 03:33:21PM -0800, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I just don’t think Python 4 is anything but distant vaporware.
If Python 4 follows 3.9, that could be as little as 3-4 years away :-) > There’s a cost to freaking everyone out that Python 4 is coming and > will be as disruptive as Python 3. Indeed. I do my bit to combat that in two ways: - remind people that Guido has pronounced that Python 4 will not be a disruptive, backwards-incompatible change like Python 3 was; - and use "Python 5000" to refer to any such hypothetical and very unlikely incompatible version. > Calling Python 3.9+1 Python 4 > feeds into that FUD for no reason that I can tell except for an > aversion to two digit minor version numbers. I haven't come across this FUD about Python 4, so I wonder whether it exists more in our fears than the reality. I daresay there are a few people out there who will instantly react to even a casual mention of "Python 4" as if it were a concrete upgrade that just broke their servers, but I would hope the average Python coder had more sense. I know that we have to plan for the community we have rather the community we want, but I would be very sad if we had decisions forced on us by the most ignorant, Dunning-Kruger, unteachable and proud of it segment of the community. Any such hypothetical Python 3.10/4.0 version is at least three or four years away. Let's not limit our options until we know whether or not this FUD is widespread. Whatever we plan, we should allow for *both* a Python 3.10 and a Python 4, and then we'll be good even if 4.0 follows 3.12 :-) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
