[Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:08 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
>  (That said, I
> do see some merit to doing some extra cleaning at the 4.0
> boundary, just for mental convenience.)

A transition from 3.9 to 4.0 that removes a whole lot of deprecated
aliases and such wouldn't be a bad thing. It's technically breaking
backward compat (and thus justifying the major version bump), but any
code broken by it would have been unidiomatic for the past X versions
anyway.

ChrisA