Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-11 Thread Robert Kern
Sergei Organov wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:12:58 +0200, Benjamin Niemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: That's actually the versioning scheme of TeX, currently being at 3.141592 eeek My last exposure to TeX

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-11 Thread Sergei Organov
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sergei Organov wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:12:58 +0200, Benjamin Niemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: [...] Anyway, it's unfair to speak of one of the most wonderful pieces of

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-11 Thread Sergei Organov
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:40:50 +0400, Sergei Organov [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Anyway, it's unfair to speak of one of the most wonderful pieces of software ever written in such a tone. I refer to the

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-11 Thread per9000
I can't wait to get my hands on version PAL9000, then we will all have to deallocate memory *the hard way*. /per9000 --- I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-10 Thread Benjamin Niemann
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:15:15 -0400, Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: [John Salerno] Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be called that when it's released? The smart money is on changing

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-10 Thread Christos Georgiou
On 9 Apr 2006 20:32:07 -0700, rumours say that Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Or... just to save 3000 as a time way down the road... The next major version of Python will be: Python PI (and each build will add another digit... 3.1, 3.14, 3.141, ...) I

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-10 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:15:15 -0400, rumours say that Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: [John Salerno] Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be called that when it's released? The smart money is on changing the name to Ecstasy, to leverage marketing

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergei Organov
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:12:58 +0200, Benjamin Niemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: That's actually the versioning scheme of TeX, currently being at 3.141592 eeek My last exposure to TeX was some 15 odd years

Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-09 Thread John Salerno
Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be called that when it's released? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-09 Thread Tim Peters
[John Salerno] Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be called that when it's released? The smart money is on changing the name to Ecstasy, to leverage marketing publicity from the hallucinogenic club drug of the same name. class will be renamed to rave, and the

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-09 Thread Ray
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Or... just to save 3000 as a time way down the road... The next major version of Python will be: Python PI (and each build will add another digit... 3.1, 3.14, 3.141, ...) I like this idea a lot. This way, people ALWAYS know what the next release's name will be.

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-09 Thread John Salerno
Tim Peters wrote: [John Salerno] Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be called that when it's released? The smart money is on changing the name to Ecstasy, to leverage marketing publicity from the hallucinogenic club drug of the same name. class will be

Re: Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

2006-04-09 Thread Steven Bethard
John Salerno wrote: Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be called that when it's released? Actually, there's an official response these days in `PEP 3000`_: Naming Python 3000, Python 3.0 and Py3K are all names for the same thing. The project is called