On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:37:45PM +0000, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon Mar 10 2014 at 12:08:55 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >> I suggest to wait less than 8 years
> > >> for Python 4.
> > >
> > > Why? What's special about 8 years?
> >
> > It's the time between Python 2.0 and 3.0.
>
> But I'm willing to bet that's going to be an anomaly. Python 3 came into
> existence when it did so we didn't wait too long for Python 2 to get even
> more of a foothold; the expectation is that long-term more non-Python 2
> code will be written than not. There's no rush on Python 4 since there are
> no plans to try and tweak something as drastic as str/bytes.
Well, the entire discussion is about "please don't do major changes
-- we've got enough already".
Oleg.
--
Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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