Postpone Python 4 for another 5 years
Now that double digits reached Python 3 and for the sake of maintaining compatibility for longer since Python 2.7 recently passed away and people is finally migrating after 12 years, I propose 5 new Python 3 versions: So we can have Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and finally 3.14 a.k.a Pi-thon Regards
Hi João You wrote:
So we can have Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and finally 3.14 a.k.a Pi-thon
What a lovely idea. There's good precedent for this: $ tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 $ mf This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded base=mf) Aside: Each new version of TeX and METAFONT gets an additional decimal digit of precision. For more information see Don Knuth's announcement: The Future of TeX and Metafont: http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-4/tb30knut.pdf Perhaps we could release Python 3.14 on 14 March, as in https://www.piday.org/. Once again João, thank you for your lovely idea. -- Jonathan
Is Python 4 being planned at the moment? What backwards incompatible changes would it introduce? Steele On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 9:22 AM João Bernardo <jbvsmo@gmail.com> wrote:
Now that double digits reached Python 3 and for the sake of maintaining compatibility for longer since Python 2.7 recently passed away and people is finally migrating after 12 years, I propose 5 new Python 3 versions:
So we can have Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and finally 3.14 a.k.a Pi-thon
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:06 AM Steele Farnsworth <swfarnsworth@gmail.com> wrote:
Is Python 4 being planned at the moment? What backwards incompatible changes would it introduce?
It isn't, so "postpone Python 4" really just means "keep doing what's already happening". At present, it seems fairly likely that there WILL be a Python 3.14 - and I sincerely hope that the Raspberry Pi is still an active platform at the time! Maybe Pythonistas around the world can gather for an appropriately themed meal, perhaps hosted at a local cheese shop, and ensuring that at least some of the menu entries contain only a little bit of spam. (If you'd care to migrate this thread to python-list, I'm sure a LOT of people would be happy to chime in with further suggestions. And it will be awesome. And it will be delicious.) ChrisA
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