On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:41:58AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > >My biggest problem with ``python3``, is what happens after 3.9. > > FWIW, 3.9 by my rough calculation is 7 years away.
That makes it 2021, one year after Python 2.7 free support ends, but two years before Red Hat commercial support for it ends. > I seem to recall Guido saying that *if* there's a 4.0, it won't be a major > break like Python 3, whatever that says about the numbering scheme after 3.9. > > Is 7 years enough to eradicate Python 2 the way we did for Python 1? Then > maybe Python 4 can reclaim /usr/bin/python. I expect not quite. Perhaps 10 years though. -- 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
