[Python-3000] pre-PEP: Procedure for PEPs with Backwards-Incompatible Changes

[Guido van Rossum]

On 3/28/06, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     >> Suggestion: Make this PEP 3001 and start any Py3k PEPs from 3100....
>
>     Guido> I already proposed that numbering scheme. More formally, Py3k
>     Guido> meta PEPs go between 3001 and 3099, and feature PEPs start at
>     Guido> 3100 (and hopefully we won't have to overflow into 4000 :-).
>
> Should there be some distinction between Py3k PEPs which fall under the
> purview of Steven's PEP and those which contain completely new stuff and
> aren't going to impact Python 2.x code?

I don't think there are enough dimensions in the numbering scheme to
indicate all possible distinctions. IOW, no.

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