Richard@KarmannGhia.org writes:
(Maybe! How do we know they won't abandon Python3 like they did Python2?
They supported Python 2 for most of a decade after the release of Python 3. Not only does that bode well for longterm Python 3 support, there also will not be another break like Python 3 vs. Python 2. Nobody has the stamina to accept that much abuse again. There once was talk of going from Python 3.9 to Python 4.0, but that would have been just Python 3.10 by another name, just as backward compatible.
I mean, whatever happened to Python1?!
It gracefully evolved into Python 2. There were a couple of small compatibility breaks (introduction of true Boolean values was one, I think), which justified a few years with both Python 1 (with the Unicode type bolted on in v1.6) and Python 2 (with the compatibility breaks and a number of new syntaxes, and a more thorough integration of Unicode) being supported and distributed at the same time.
Why isn't it just "Python"?)
To let people know that there are definitely backward incompatibilities.
Steve