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

Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Mon Mar 10 18:58:30 CET 2014


On 03/10/2014 08:59 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2014, at 04:25 PM, Stefan Richthofer wrote:
>
>>> I don't see any reason to bump
>>> the major version number until after Python 3.9.
>> Even then, there is no need for 4.0; you can just have 3.10, 3.11 etc.
> Guido famously hates two digit minor version numbers. :)

Yeah, but he'll be retired by then.  So shh!

No wonder he doesn't use Ubuntu,


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