[Distutils] PEP 508, environment markers & the possibility of Python 3.10

[Pradyun Gedam]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 at 11:15 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> In https://github.com/python/peps/issues/560, a user pointed out that
> the current definition of python_version in PEP 508 assumes
> single-digit major and minor version numbers:
>
>    platform.python_version()[:3]
>
> There's a reasonable chance we'll see 3.10 rather than 4.0 in a few
> years time, at which point that definition would break.
>
> The suggested fix is to amend that definition to be:
>
>     ".".join(platform.python_version_tuple()[:2])
>
> This seems like a good suggestion to me, so my inclination is to
> handle this in a similar way to
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#summary-of-changes-to-pep-440:
> fix it in place, and add a section at the end of the PEP listing the
> post-publication changes.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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+1 from me too! :)
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