[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

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>> Is it really that confusing? I have never heard of anyone asking "what
>> is py3k?"
>
> Do you read python-list? It has been asked. Also, some people seem to
> think that py3k is different from python 3.

Personally, I vote for keeping the "3k" for 3000 (or is it 3072?).  I
believe that py3k represents a ideal that hasn't been reached, despite
being hoped for in python3.  By keeping it, it confers the idea
continual evolution *within* the language until that hypothetical
ideal is reached.  Clearly, there are times when a language reaches
only a local maximum, and must depart from itself to arrive at a more
global optimum (an annealing problem in the minimization of
frustration energy).  If py3k wasn't kept, another term would
eventually need to be invented.

marcos