16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
6:44 p.m.
On 9/15/20 8:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There's still a lot of community angst over the possibility that some hypothetical Python 4 will be like the 2/3 transition. Some people even imagine that the version after 3.9 could be that transition.
I know we're not responsible for the ravings of people on social media, but do you think we should do a FAQ? Something along the lines of:
the version after 3.9 will be 3.10, and in fact it already exists;
if there ever is a version 4, the transition from 3 to 4 will be more
like that from 1 to 2 rather than 2 to 3.
Seems like a good plan.
Current evidence suggests, however, that no amount of preemptive documentation will have any impact at all on social media fueled FUD.