2009/7/5 average <dreamingforward@gmail.com>:
Is it really that confusing? I have never heard of anyone asking "what is py3k?"
Do you read python-list? It has been asked. Also, some people seem to think that py3k is different from python 3.
Personally, I vote for keeping the "3k" for 3000 (or is it 3072?). I believe that py3k represents a ideal that hasn't been reached, despite being hoped for in python3. By keeping it, it confers the idea continual evolution *within* the language until that hypothetical ideal is reached. Clearly, there are times when a language reaches only a local maximum, and must depart from itself to arrive at a more global optimum (an annealing problem in the minimization of frustration energy). If py3k wasn't kept, another term would eventually need to be invented.
And that's why we're already fantasizing about Py4k. :) -- Regards, Benjamin