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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 10 23:28:33 CET 2014


Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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.

And we have all of UCS-4 to play with, so for all
practical purposes the 3.x line can live forever!

The downside is that we'll get endless complaints
from jmfauth about the Flexible Version Number
Representation. :-(

-- 
Greg


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