Good idea. I tweeted pretty much what you wrote. https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1306082472443084801 On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:58 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> 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.

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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.