[Python-Dev] Is 4.0 a major breaking changes release?

[Zachary Ware]

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Alex Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
> I am still working on porting code from 2.x to 3.x.  As of late on the lists
> I've seen comments about making somewhat major changes in 4.0 - now I'm
> concerned that I should pause my porting effort until that is released.  Is
> python 4 going to be another python 3?

Emphatically no.  Anyone suggesting big breaking changes in 4.0 is
exercising wishful thinking :)

There may be some cleanup in 4.0, but only removing things that have
been deprecated for a long time in 3.x but hadn't been removed to
maintain compatibility with 2.7.

-- 
Zach