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

[Ryan Gonzalez]

You forgot 3., and 3.$.


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:04:08 +0100
> > "Stefan Richthofer" <Stefan.Richthofer at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >> > Guido famously hates two digit minor version numbers. :)
> >>
> >> This is no problem either. Simply switch to hexadecimal numbering ;)
> >
> > Or wrap around to negative numbers (a minus sign isn't technically a
> > digit, is it?).
>
> Terrible idea. Would wreak havoc with comparisons. No. Python 3 is all
> about Unicode, so the right way to proceed is 3.8, 3.9, 3.:, 3.;, 3.<,
> 3.=, 3.>, 3.?, 3.@, 3.A.
>
> ChrisA
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Ryan
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