Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io>: > My biggest problem with ``python3``, is what happens after 3.9. I know > Guido doesn’t particularly like two digit version numbers and it’s > been suggested on this list that instead of 3.10 we’re likely to move > directly into 4.0 regardless of if it’s a “big” change or not.
python3 should be the name of the programming language specification. If CPython-4.0 supports all of the python3 programming language, /usr/bin/python3 should be a symbolic link to CPython-4.0. Or, if I reimplemented python3 with cyphon0.7, python3 could be a link to that. If CPython-4.x dropped support for some python3 features, you would no longer link python3 to it. Now, what would plain "python" be? It would make life easier for a lot of people if it were "python2" for all eternity. By analogy, look at #!/bin/sh, which used to invoke the Bourne shell, later /bin/bash and on modern Debian, /bin/dash. Marko _______________________________________________ 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
