I misunderstood thanks for the clarification and if an apology is appropriate I gladly offer mine. 

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 9:01 PM Edwin Zimmerman <edwin@211mainstreet.net> wrote:
On 8/7/2020 10:47 PM, Ricky Teachey wrote:
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:25 PM Edwin Zimmerman <edwin@211mainstreet.net> wrote:
On 8/7/2020 8:28 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>  I don't think anyone has the appetite for a Python 4 any
> time soon.
>
I'm included in "anyone" here.  From reading this list, it seems to me that "Python 4" is invoked as some folks favorite magical justification for proposing major breaking changes.  Python 3 works quite well, I think.  Non-breaking, incremental changes suite me much better that large breaking ones.  I have better things to do with my time than complete software rewrites of all the software projects I work on.

Nobody is asking you to rewrite anything in this thread.
Thankfully not.  I did not intend to come across as commenting on this thread in particular, but rather as voicing a general comment against large breaking changes.  Apparently, I wasn't clear enough about my intent.

--Edwin