On 01/23/2020 03:36 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2020, at 14:03, Victor Stinner wrote:

>> It's not only about specific changes, but more a discussion about a
>> general policy to decide if a deprecated feature should stay until
>> 3.10, or if it's ok to remove it in 3.9.
>
> Given that we’ve changed the release cadence to one major release per year, it doesn’t seem that much of a burden to revert and carry these changes forward into Python 3.10.  And if it helps with the migration off of Python 2.7, then +1 from me.

I suspect anyone who's waited this long to switch to Python 3 will be okay with staying on 3.8 for a few years.